Word: label
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most strollers in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art passed by Carpaccio's murky, golden Meditation on the Passion without noticing anything wrong. Those who looked twice saw that the label said Carpaccio but the picture was signed "Andreas Mantinea" (Mantegna...
Academically, the label "journalese" can become harsh criticism. But what Lillian helm and does in "The Searching Wind" and what Edward Chodorov does in "Decision" if then made good propaganda and poor theatre. For the same reason that a newspaper editorialist and make facts and figures more palatable than a Congressional committee report, talk, by accenting the personal, can make the social issue of race discrimination more acceptable to the requirements of the stage...
...Judge Jonah J. Goldstein, onetime secretary to Al Smith. In so doing, they lost the services of the top Republican in city politics, Council President Newbold Morris, a patrician socialite who believes in government as a career. Cracked Newbold Morris: "[Judge Goldstein] thinks he can buy the good government label like a new collar. You've got to earn it through the years. It comes after trial by fire...
...brown and tan get-up with a black derby, she in a grey suit, matching beanie, sable scarf, pearl necklace, diamond clip, aquamarine-&-sapphire earrings. When the Duke shed his topcoat, a nosey bystander noted that it was a hand-me-down from the '30s, with a label inside the collar which read: "Prince of Wales...
...Road to Reaction," which is being written now and will probably appear in October, finer plans to label Hayek's "reasoning wrong, terminology distorted, outlook antiquated, planning false, and arguments fallacious and puerile. The whole thing is so ridiculous," adds Finer, "because of Hayek's illogical progression of ideas. He distrusts the people politically, but he has confidence in any one of those same people who cna be successful in economics; he believes in economic freedom, but not in political freedom...