Word: l
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gervaise. Emile Zola's L'Assommoir, a vast cry at man's fate, diminished by French taste into a touching story of a woman's ruin; with Maria Schell (TIME...
...successful newspapers," declaimed querulous, bellicose H. L. Mencken, "are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose." The most conspicuous exception to Mencken's Law is the Christian Science Monitor (circ. 158,729). which never whines, cusses or blusters, but sets out daily, as enjoined by Christian Science Founder Mary Baker Eddy, to ''spread confidence instead of fear, record the good men do instead of magnifying and exploiting the regrettable evil...
...Objective Painter Adolph Gottlieb, Art Students League Director Stewart Klonis, Arts Publisher Jonathan Marshall, Old-Line Abstractionist George L. K. Morris, Realist Painter Ogden M. Pleissner and Sculptor William Zorach...
Subtract One. In Los Angeles, Rosetta L. Randall, 20, won a divorce from her husband Donald, 31, after testifying that he placed their marriage on a point system: "When I did anything right he'd give me points and when I did anything wrong he would take points away. I never knew the results. I had so many points taken away I guess I didn't have much of a score...
...William L. Langer, Coolidge Professor of History and Director of the Russian Research Center, commented yesterday, "We are convinced that only good can come from closer intellectual contact and exchange with Russia." Langer, whom Dean Bundy appointed to coordinate the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' negotiations with Iron Curtain countries, emphasized the advantages to scholars of both countries in not only getting access to formerly unavailable material, but also in making contacts with the peoples of both nations...