Word: formalization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ordered all A.F.L.-C.I.O. unions to cancel "any alliance, agreement, formal or informal," with Hoffa's Teamsters...
...first time, Provincetown has a shop that rents formal wear...
...next year. Last week Sonnabend reported that he had nine prospective bridegrooms with combined earnings before taxes of $30 million a year-more than enough, he said, to offset Studebaker's past losses. Sonnabend was eager to get on with the wedding, but Churchill wanted to hold up formal publication of the banns until the company's creditors have approved plans to recapitalize, make the debt load more manageable...
...eleventh of twelve children, Giacomo had little formal training, after the third grade went to work as a stonecutter, house painter, plasterer. He eventually managed to save for a month's trip to Paris, where he spent nights on park benches, days in the Louvre. In 1938 he turned out the first of his now famous cardinal series. "They interested me not because of their religious content," he says, "but because of their form and line. In a way they are my abstractions." Last year Manzù, who destroys the mold after a single cast, created what he considers...
...instinctively to the Hans Christian Andersen world in which fairy stories are meant less for children than for "unbelieving adults." Dismissing Richard Wagner's work as "sauerkraut," Satie spent his life creating tiny musical gems. To Rousseau's mannered childlike-ness, says Author Shattuck, he added a formal naughtiness that made his works almost "a fragile fabric of inanity." For Parade, a ballet on which Diaghilev, Cocteau, Picasso, Massine and Satie collaborated, he wrote a score including parts for typewriters, sirens, airplane propellers, Morse tickers and lottery wheels. An eccentric in his personal life as well, he went...