Word: display
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Adams House Harold has mounted a picture of Dover Beach--clipped from an insurance ad--on the laundry cardboard from his button-down shirts.) Occasonally he wanders to the river, looking for dandelions--the universal symbol of simple innocence and purity. More often, he stands before the plate-glass display of Cardullo's--with a libidinous twitch at the Italian sausage...
...Silence is not an effective instrument of democracy." Speaking for the French party, anti-Gaullist Albert Gazier. in a rare display of political candor, dismissed all this earnest talk as irrelevant. Don't rock our boat. French Socialists pleaded; there are advantages in having Socialists on the inside...
...Milanese have set out to cure their sense of inferiority in matters of art. Last week they had on display the most impressive array of Lombard art ever assembled. The exhibit, which took four years to gather, includes frescoes lifted bodily from the walls of churches, oils on loan from all over Europe and the U.S., marble sculptures lowered from the peaks of the Duomo for their first close-up inspection in more than 400 years. An imposing array of 501 objects spread out over 22 rooms of Milan's solemn Palazzo Reale, viewed by more than a thousand...
With Lombardy's best on display, a whole overlooked chapter of Italian art was reinserted into history. Milan could not muster the roll of masters that Venice and Florence boast, but it had its own great and distinctive charm. Summed up one Milanese critic: "It is not superb art, but it is never empty...
...CRIMSON, undoubtedly heartened by this display for lawlessness, conducted a poll in conjunction with fourteen other colleges; results showed that out of 24,000 votes, 15,000 of American college youth were willing to lose their reputation for virtue in order to support repeal or modification of the liquor laws. Pennsylvania, however, was the exception to the rule, and the Quakers registered a majority dry vote. Princeton, naturally enough, had the wettest vote. Over 79 per cent of the Tigers admitted that they drank...