Word: expressionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In no other major sport is the spectator so intimately connected with the events of the game. Players wander among the crowd, the stands are within ten feet of the field, and the absence of protective equipment renders nearly every participant's expression visible to the observers.
After little more than a year as Navy Secretary, Anderson stepped up to the Defense Department's No. 2 post. Deputy Defense Secretary. In mid-1955 he left the Administration to take over as president of Ventures, Ltd., a Canadian holding company with worldwide mining interests. When Treasury Secretary...
"American mass culture is a kind of parody of high culture," he declared. MacDonald described art in a high culture as an expression of the artist and standards of discipline. "Commercial mass art is anti-art," he said, "because there is no real communication between the artist and the public...
Instead, they agreed that it is "necessary to distinguish between policy and philosophy," as Hoffmann said. Until de Gaulle withdraws from NATO operations Wald and Hoffmann suggest that his statement is just another expression of his preference for an associated rather than integrated defense effort.
In the field of non-government aid, Bender found occasional "overtones of public relations, propaganda, self-aggrandizement or corporate recruiting." Although he called increased Federal aid a "social imperative for our kind of society," he warned of attempts to "limit freedom of inquiry and expression," offering the NDEA loyalty provision...