Word: g
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Perry G. E. Miller, professor of American Literature, stated that Longfellow was immensely important in American literature but that he was a "simple minded chap...
...split among the 298 unelected "delegates"-at least 50 of them past or present defendants under the Smith Act-was wide. An insurgent group, headed by Daily Worker Editor John G. Gates, had savagely criticized Soviet conduct in Hungary, loudly proclaimed its desire to change the U.S. party into a "political action or education association"-a course by which, argued Editor Gates, U.S. Communism could win "independence" from Moscow, thus permit it to end its "isolation" from other U.S. "mass movements...
...minute operatic treatment of Honoré de Balzac's spine-tingler La Grande Bretêche, with music by California-born Stanley Hollingsworth, 32, pupil and protégé of Gian Carlo Menotti. Commissioned by the NBC Opera Company, Bretêche closely follows the Balzac tale-a bedroom farce given the Grand Guignol treatment- about a wife who hastily conceals her lover in a closet, swears to her husband there is no one there, and then stands by in helpless horror as the husband has the closet bricked up. While much of the original's strength...
...American debut at eleven in 1887 (he played brilliantly, but his So-concert tour was halted after 42 performances by the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children), later became one of the world's most highly praised and best-paid artists; in Los Angeles. A protégé of Composer Anton Rubinstein, he developed brilliant technique (though his hands were so stubby that he required a specially shortened keyboard), retired several years after his triumphant golden-jubilee concert tour...
...first singles, captain Ben Heckscher won easily from G. P. Gaspard, 15-13, 15-4, 15-3, and at second singles Cal Place took a quick match from Tony Ellison, 15-10, 15-11, 10-15, 15-9. After a shaky start, Larry Sears took the measure of Pete Williams, 11-15, 15-11, 15-7, 15-4, and at fourth and fifth singles both Charlie Hamm, and Charlie MacVeagh won decisive 3-0 matches...