Word: destructionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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But gradually, in the areas where the schools were closed, and among the thoughtful people in the South generally, the full implications of the school closing began to soak in. Seen close up, the school closings turned out to be more than a defiance of integration, more than a legal...
Who are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse? Scholars have given St. John's symbols of strife and destruction various names, though the sixth chapter of Revelations, through which they ride, names only one-Death ("and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death...
¶ Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House (1909), nicknamed "the Battleship," an earth-hugging, brick masonry private house with free-running cantilevers, on Chicago's Woodlawn Avenue. Saved earlier this year from destruction, it will be handed over to the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
In the living room hangs a superb Sassetta tryptich, one which Berenson found in an antique shop moments before its intended destruction for wood panels. It overlooks a deeply lit sanctum of well worn opulence. A recording of Verdi's Requiem rested upon one of two pianos. Copies of The...
"I have heard," Eaton told the Premier, "the Soviet impression that American industry is in favor of war so that war orders will continue to flow. Speaking solely as a capitalist, we industrialists are not at all happy about spending $40 billion a year for implements of war that, if...