Word: dawn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...office Drapeau lent the city a new tone. By revamping the city's tax-assessment system, resourcefully tackling traffic congestion, establishing an arts council, tireless Jean Drapeau has convinced Montrealers that the mayor can be more than a circus ringmaster. And although glasses still clink in nightclubs until dawn, big-scale vice has been run out of business-with no evident harm to Montreal's lusty tourist trade or Drapeau's popularity. Says he: "Here in Montreal people used to think that prostitution was necessary to keep down the crime of rape. We found out that...
...time they cheered a play, Faubus stood up and bowed.") The next night Faubus cavorted in the Silver Room of Sea Island's Cloister Hotel, signing autographs, sipping bourbon and Seven-Up, and dancing. Orval Faubus was the life of the party. The night wore on-and the dawn approached when he would get violence in Little Rock...
Sensing the Mystic. Religion of a far less earthbound frame was also a prime concern of Germany's Blane Reiter (Blue Rider) group centered at Munich, which strove for what Franz Marc called "sensing the underlying mystical design of the visible world." But what looked like a new dawn for European art quickly clouded with the rumors of war. Wassily Kandinsky began introducing cannons into his abstractions. Paul Klee's expressions of his subconscious began to reflect fear. Klee's Blue Rider painting companion, bean-pole-tall August Macke, painted his somber Farewell, a square filled with...
...Dawn broke overcast and muggy over Nashville (pop. 187,000), the graceful and leisurely capital of the state of Tennessee. It was back-to-school week, and for the first time in the city's history Negro children would go to school with white children. The way had been prepared carefully; the integration would be selective and limited. Only twelve carefully chosen little Negro children, first-graders all, would go to five schools that were previously all white. But the air was charged with tension. "We are in the backwash of a thing that's going...
City officials stood by, disdaining to interfere for fear of infringing the right of free assembly. They knew that the tradition of segregation was hard to break, and they were tolerant of the protesting crowds, which broke up without open disorder. But before another dawn Nashville was to be blasted into a changed mood...