Word: ets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Caesar: Et tu, Brute...
Stormum surgebat, et boatum oversetebat...
...carried Dictator Khrushchev's stop-nuclear tests and let's-have-a-parley-at-the-summit propaganda to the U.S. public via TV press conferences, businessmen's dinners and cultural wingdings with such sincere style that he got the nickname of "Smiling Mike" (TIME, March 17 et seq.). Sample exchange: Q. How can we trust you on stopping nuclear tests when you violated the armistice in Korea? A. I think we should believe each other-that is the only...
NEARLY half a century ago the modern art of Paris-the work of Picasso, Matisse, Brancusi et al.-was introduced to the U.S. at a Manhattan exhibition famed ever since as the 1913 "Armory Show." This summer the U.S. has sent to Europe a show of American abstract expressionist paintings that the sponsors consider, at last, the counterpart of the 1913 show. The abstract expressionists have made their impact on the U.S. art world (some collectors are willing to pay up to $30.000 for a drip painting by Jackson Pollock) and have already stirred up interest abroad (some European collectors...
...them, Kerr must raid the source of supply-the faculties at Harvard, Yale, Chicago, Michigan, et al., with promises of blue skies, expansion-pushed advancement and high salaries ($12,900 top). A less obvious necessity: by choice, of site, of faculty minds and of educational specialty, each uncreated campus must be given a strong, distinctive character of its own. In the meantime, new-hatched President Kerr has another problem: "It's hard enough to be installed on one campus. I have to be installed on seven...