Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ribbentrop] who, while we write, is mounting the Alps, which close Lamagna above Tiralli, we send our respectful salute," wrote Signer Ansaldo. The quotation is from Dante's Divine Comedy and no educated Italian needs to be told, it is often used to express the Italian command to the Germanic hordes to stay beyond the Alps...
...well be the greatest diplomatic squeeze play of the war. Sunday, from a Rome platform, Il Duce, wearing a dark civilian suit and carrying a heavy black coat, jumped into a special train and headed north. At about the same time in Berlin, the Fuhrer caught a southbound special express. Nobody but the diplomats involved-and Mr. Welles-had received the slightest notice of the rendezvous...
...flayed the Keynes Plan as, "Good enough for Hitler's workers-but not good enough for ours." Lord Stamp, Economic Advisor to the Government, is still for "voluntary methods." Because good words have been said for the Plan by Lords Balfour, Swinton and Glentanar, the capricious London Daily Express paradoxically headlines, "Peers Of The Realm Unite! You Have Nothing To Gain But Keynes...
...past three years the U. S. indoor track season has wound up with a Record- Party at Dartmouth's Davis Field House in the New Hampshire hills. For the express purpose of breaking records, the season's fastest runners are annually invited to stretch their legs on its phenomenally fast, six-and-two-thirds-laps-to-the-mile spruce track-with Dartmouth runners acting as pacemakers. There, two years ago, iron legged Glenn Cunningham ran his amazing 4:04.4 mile. Last year Negro John Borican set world's indoor records for a half-mile...
...much less important question than the number of times that it has been asked might indicate. But it must be dealt with. First of all, what is any artist trying to say? Is the content of any good painting so entirely divorced from the form in which it is expressed that it can be separated from the form and set up as the idea or intention in the mind of the artist? I think not. But for the purpose of discussion, we must divorce the content from the painting itself. Now it is difficult, almost impossible, for a literal artist...