Word: interment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Good Partnership. When President Eisenhower took office, "the wholesome concept of good neighbors" prevailed in inter-American relations. But "we foresaw a bond stronger than any yet achieved here or in any other community of world states." As a result, Eisenhower "called for a thorough study of the entire field of inter-American relations, the first integral examination ever made of our relations in the hemisphere. The man who did this job was the President's brother, Dr. Milton Eisenhower, who submitted an exhaustive report in November 1953. Dr. Eisenhower's recommendations on hemisphere partnership became and still...
...objects like bottles and pipes that men everywhere knew, instead of bringing the uneducated up to the iconographic level of traditional art. In his latest painting, Le Corbusier has dropped much of the theory and concentrated on more sculptural, fresco-like designs. His work shows great awareness of the inter-relationship between the art and the architectural setting in which they are placed...
Chafee himself considered his major work the drafting of the Federal Inter-pleader Act of 1934. Although his interest in civil rights developed as a by-product of his more technical legal work, it was in the defense of free expression that Chafee achieved national prominence...
Their reasons for admiring the fine arts varied. Taylor noted the inter-relation of art and history, and maintained that the purpose of the artist was to bring about a "cross-fertilization between the two." Ben Shahn, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, said that in art "it is the intent that counts...
...weeklies' resurgence reflects editorial as well as economic vitality. In addition to relaying the back-fence chit-chat on which weeklies have traditionally thrived, the papers are the only inter preters and watchdogs of local governments in hundreds of U.S. communities, whose problems, aims and achievements go largely unrecorded in the metropolitan press. "We wouldn't be here if the dailies hadn't created the void in the first place," says a staffer on Seattle's weekly Argus (circ. 5.142), which has beaten the city's dailies on big local stories. Last week the Argus...