Word: imprints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made his headquarters a "school, employment agency, court of domestic relations and poor man's 'psychiatric couch.'" He was the voice of the poor, too, railing down the years against the Brahmins of Back Bay, State Street and Harvard. Curley's long memory bears the imprint of the Yankee sign, "No Irish Need Apply," that was so frequent in his youth. Though he had little more than a grammar-school education, self-taught James Curley sprinkled his oratory and conversation with lines from Shakespeare, Cervantes and Voltaire, all seemingly aimed at proving him the peer...
...Revere of the Boston Massacre, works by Benjamin West, Washington Allston, Whistler, Sargent, Homer, Eakins and Ryder. What the exhibition plainly shows is that a new school of painting sprang up in the U.S.. one that at times echoes its European origins, but that has its own national imprint and its own peculiar genius...
...seems to act with the sense of knowing best," one commentator remarked, "--a kind of vocation to set an incompetant world to rights." This drive to set the world at rights is perhaps implicit in his Socialist creed, but Gaitskell's interpretation of party cant bears the imprint of a man looking for an up-to-date, intellectually solid synthesis. his own words, defining what he sees as the evils of capitalism, illuminate the original approach of Hugh Gaitskell to socialism. "The three evils of the individualistic system," he once wrote, "are inequality of wealth, insecurity of employment, and inefficiency...
...even women's fashions. To produce an echo that would come closest to what the '20s would call the real McCoy, television turned to its indispensable ally, the cinema. Four film searchers took 800 hours to view all they could find of the decade's imprint on celluloid. Out of it they culled 23 hours of film for NBC Producer Henry (Victory at Sea) Salomon and his Project 20 staff. This week (Thurs. 10 p.m., E.S.T., NBC) TViewers can see the result: The Jazz Age, which boils ten gaudy years down to 54 lively minutes...
...Chevy Show, Frank Sinatra and Dinah Shore teamed up to put the imprint of their own engaging personalities on a repertory of ditties reminiscent of the enchanted evening when Mary Martin and Ethel Merman just pulled up a stool in front of the camera and sang some old songs...