Word: conventionalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Of the 1,521 delegate votes at the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles next July, a total of 271, more than a third of the 761 needed to nominate, will come from the 13 Western states. Any candidate able to win the support of the Western states in a...
Any politician with an eye on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue had better keep the other eye cocked toward California, with its late (June 7), high-stakes (81 delegates to the Democratic National Convention, 70 to the Republican) presidential primaries and its 32 electoral votes. To no one is California more crucial...
Using simple strokes and surefire cliches, always working from the outside out, now shaking their heads over what goes on and now smacking their lips, Playwrights Lawrence and Lee give their play a fair amount of story interest and shock value, while Actor Melvyn Douglas, with a brilliant impersonation, wins...
Somehow it does not seem to matter in the early scenes that no makeup artist can change 33-year-old Larry (Flower Drum Song) Blyden into the angular, ferret-faced, 17-year-old copy boy he is in the novel's opening chapters; Blyden's lines still snarl...
Segregationists usually blame "Northern interference or the N.A.A.C.P.," but the radio-television industry carries far more responsibility. "Television spreads more rapidly among the poor than among the rich. And the classes with TV sets are getting TV's message: you should have a new car; you should be a...