Word: displays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Propagandist. Crisp, competent Yvette, now a stout matron of 36, gave a fine display of peasant shrewdness. She wrote a personal appeal to President Eisenhower,, got daughter Dorothy to write to a French radio program, Vous Etes Formidables ("You Are Terrific"), asking that her father's predicament be broadcast. More than 100,000 letters poured into the U.S. embassy in Paris begging that Wayne be pardoned...
...Geneva, was carefully worked out by the President, Secretary of State Dulles and Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan; 2) the deployment of U.S. forces to Lebanon to protect a small government against threats of subversion was being accepted in the Middle East as the most significant display of Western strength and determination since Korea; 3) U.S. policies over the last fortnight, far from alienating world opinion, had brought the Western nations closer together than they had been for years, and seriously impressed staunch Western friends among the newly independent countries...
...abstract-expressionist breakthrough the opening of a brave, new, unfettered world of art. Worcester Museum Director Daniel Catton Rich finds the movement producing "the most fruitful work being done in this decade ... a new, vital kind of American abstraction, pictures which in sweep, size and dynamics display typically American qualities. Beside them many European contemporaries seem weak and uninventive...
Cocktail Time ("A Novel about a Novel"), the latest of Wodehouse's 76 books, shares with its predecessors the Wodehousian characteristic of being strictly up to date in time and half a century behind in taste. Its characters display, as always, what Essayist John W. Aldridge calls ''the miraculous capacity of the human body to operate without the assistance of any mental powers whatever." Among the 15-odd starters...
...18th century painted decoration was the order of the day on everything from royal carriages to commoners' chamber pots. Has the time come to revive the tradition? Suggesting that the answer is yes, Paris' swank Galerie Charpentier last week had on display ten brand-new refrigerators decorated by ten top Paris painters. The show, called "The Nobility of the Everyday Object," was billed by Poet-Painter Jean Cocteau as "a victory over the negative style of emptiness." Said Jours de France: "The most bizarre show of the year...