Word: knowingness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Broadway is an unhealthy place, in the opinion of Producer Manning Gurian, because of the fallout from all those theatrical A-bombs. Knowing the pain of Broadway radiation burns (in 1948 he brought Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke into Manhattan after a triumphant three-week road tryout only to...
Benjamin is naturally a "front runner," one who sets the pace whenever he can, and is not bothered by the psychological disadvantage of knowing he may be outsprinted at the finish. Whenever Healy tried to ease the strain by running ahead of Benjamin and then slowing up, the Crimson captain...
"Yes, and too bad Brockberg will have to go on without knowing that there was such a joke. But what about this honorary committee stuff? Won't they feel that Briggs has arranged a shotgun marriage?"
The 50-year-old Russian-born anthropologist is being tried for perjury. He is accused of falsely denying to a federal grand jury on Feb. 20, 1957, that he knew Jack Soble, a confessed Soviet spy. However, Zborowski later admitted knowing Soble.
Since then, the primitive idiom has had its effect upon others, many less inspired and less knowing than Picasso. There have been artists who recognized in the forms of these figures, masks and fetishes, a display of rhythms, colors, and impulses universal in nature, and who identified with it and...