Word: g
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bills in the hat at the rally in support of the demonstration. I wonder who printed all the propaganda I received those days. I wonder who paid for the transportation of those I met from New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles. I wonder who supported the ex-G.I.s from Viet Nam who infiltrated my mind with horror and hate. Yes, I wonder...
...most popular masterpieces owned by Washington's National Gallery. Yet the question of who did it is surrounded by acrimony. Art Dealer Joseph Duveen and Critic Bernard Berenson broke off their friendship after an argument over whether it is by Giorgione or by his protégé, Titian. The scarcity of Giorgione's work compounds the problem. He died in his early 30s, and left behind only six or seven paintings. Thus, when Duveen bought The Adoration, he preferred to think of it as a rare Giorgione, and offered it to Andrew Mellon for $750,000. When...
...questions "focused on the area of loyalty to the teaching authority of the Pope and McNulty's own authority." At the conclusion of the meeting, said Puehn, "the bishop called six of us aside and indicated he was severing our connection with the seminary." The Rev. Thomas G. Dailey, dean of men at the seminary and one of 600 who had signed a petition organized at Catholic University of America criticizing the encyclical, had already been transferred to a pastorate in Batavia...
...King Henry IV (1553-1610), a champion phrasemaker of his day. He observed: "I wish there would not be a peasant so poor in all my realm who would not have a chicken in his pot every Sunday." Henry was also the three-centuries-removed ghostwriter for James G. Elaine's "plumed knight." He even coined the term le Grand Dessein, which was appropriated as F.D.R.'s Great Design and later as J.F.K.'s Grand Design...
...rosy-visioned device most recently revived by Richard Nixon at Miami Beach. An early halcyon-evoker was Robert G. Ingersoll, who orated in 1876 on behalf of James G. Blaine: "I see our country filled with happy homes . . . I see a world without a slave." F.D.R., in 1940: "I see an America where factory workers are not discarded after they reach their prime . . . I see an America of great cultural and educational opportunity for all its people." Adlai Stevenson, in 1952: "I see an America where no man fears to think as he pleases, or say what he thinks...