Word: echoing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...name Lucas Cranach generally calls to mind sexy mythological paintings, ornate altar pieces, and lively woodcuts satirizing the Roman Catholic Church. Cranach's delicate, pregnant-looking nudes are sly as cats, and inhabit gardens painted to look as cozy as quilts. His satiric woodcuts echo the attacks that his friend Martin Luther made on Rome...
Will Rogers (Tues. &Thurs., 5:55p.m., ABC) is a five-minute, recorded echo of the homespun comic who died in 1935. The opening show, timed to the new tax rise, featured Rogers on taxes. Sample: "There's no income tax in Russia-but there's no income, either...
...hopelessness and actual attrition. A new Churchillian call for blood, sweat, toil and tears might not now find the same response as it had before, but for the moment at least, there was reassurance in the old familiar, dogged smile beneath the square black hat. There was an encouraging echo of the good old days in the sight of Churchill making the V sign from his big, black Humber, the red, blue & gold flag of his honorary title, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, bravely flying from its fender, and the deep blue ribbon of Conservatism decorating its hood...
Crisis after crisis (Iran, the Suez Canal, the announcement of a whacking new dollar deficit) had smitten the country just before and during the campaign, but none had found more than a hollow echo in the banalities of electioneering. They were too much a fault of the times to provide political ammunition. The necessity for rearmament was not an arguable point but a sober fact, demanding some ?1,300 million of expenditure by the voters in 1951-52, regardless of which party...
There is every evidence that women have not been made happy by their ascent to power. They are dressed to kill in femininity. The bosom is back; hair is longer again; office telephones echo with more cooing voices than St. Mark's Square at pigeon-feeding time. The career girl is not ready to admit that all she wants is to get married; but she has generally retreated from the brassy advance post of complete flat-chested emancipation, to the position that she would like, if possible, to have marriage and a career, both. In the cities, she usually...