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Word: culturale (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Working full-time as a cultural executive, Composer Chávez at 49 has had little time to turn out any more music like his fine, cactus-flavored Indian Symphony or his Antigone Symphony. So now, every fourth week, he skips town with his wife, Pianist Otilia Ortiz, to one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Director or Dictator? | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

The West claimed a sizable victory when the major apparently heaved Marxian determinism overboard. "Every historical event," the powers agreed, "is a result of the interaction and interdependence of ... economic factors, political factors, cultural and social factors." Just how complete the victory would be, Berlin school children would learn next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Making History | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

Compressed into 75 feet of debris were proofs of slow climatic changes as the great glacier to the north advanced or receded. During one long period the cave dwellers ate snails, heaping the empty shells around the dinner table. At another, the ancient hunters fed their families on rhinoceros meat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: 60,000-Year-Old Boy | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

No Final Answer. The hemisphere got a joint military staff committee, a system for compulsory arbitration of legal disputes, an economic and social council. Henceforth a hundred unrelated activities-hemispheric postal union, sanitary conventions, cultural institutes-would be coordinated under Secretary General Alberto Lleras Camargo in Washington. At last an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEMISPHERE: Liberator's Dream | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

Literary Caveman Horace McCoy has driven to an absurd extreme the hardboiled, feel-my-muscles style of James Cain and Dashiell Hammett, and, to add cultural tone, has dipped into the bowely bathos of the wasn't-Bix-wonderful, oh-blow-that-beautiful-horn school. The result is a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tough Guy | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

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