Word: interested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Domestic Affairs. $6.2 billion for old-line Government agencies (agriculture, labor, etc.), $2.4 billion for social welfare, $5.5 billion for veterans, $5.4 billion interest on the $252 billion debt...
Alice Gilbert '49, NSA Regional Chairman, will join representatives from Wellesley, M.I.T., and Yale in discussing "Student Interest in International Relations" over WHDH next Thursday night...
With this view many working newsmen wholeheartedly disagreed; they felt that such a policy would be an open invitation to military men to slap the "top-secret" stamp on matters of legitimate public interest. Such newsmen felt that the press has the right to know what is going on; it should be responsible for keeping vital military secrets in peacetime just as it did in wartime...
Last week, 57 of the best of France's ex-votos (sponsored by the American Federation of Arts) were on exhibition in Manhattan. Next stops: Baltimore, Colorado Springs, Manchester, N.H., St. Louis and Memphis. U.S. gallerygoers would find the paintings short on skill, long on human interest. Many of them would agree with the French poet, Guillaume Apollinaire, on the subject. Said he: "Enchanted and painstaking awkwardness . . . enough to touch even those who have no faith...
...literature, history, the soul of man itself here becomes secondary to the prime concern-surface appearances. When Author Davenport looks at a medieval painting of the martyrdom of Saint Alban, she merely observes, with an artist's pure detachment, that the saint's collar "shows the new interest ... in the vertical line and in the center-front." In another such painting, Job's boils are ruthlessly ignored in favor of Mrs. Job's hat ("the turban which spread so rapidly from Persia"). The glories of the Medicis and the Italian Popes simply show that "the bodice...