Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...main reason I went into politics," Skeffington tells Adam, "was because it was the quickest way out of the cellar and up the ladder." Skeffington never forgets that there are plenty of votes to be picked up, back in the cellars of poverty, with new dentures, a pair of eyeglasses, some funeral money or a job. He runs on two planks: 1) "All Ireland must be free"; 2) "Trieste belongs to Italy...
...hall), and again when they wanted to have their fire engine repaired. The decision having been reached about Christmas vacation, rides home (as far as Kenosha, Wis.) were offered to College and Radcliffe students. Unfortunately, the boys down at the firehouse had their alarms crossed, and the hook-and-ladder left a day before any students appeared...
Self-Starter. In Limington, Me., while hanging up the sign for the local Masonic lodge's new, loudly touted health center, Worshipful Master Arthur Libby fell off the ladder, broke his right foot, became the center's first patient...
...concerns as it does with Goya or Picasso. Miro's world even as it exhibits the primal images of Jungian psychology does not cause pain. It does not probe or disturb the way Klee's calligraphic revelations of the subconscious seem to. Using one of his recurrent forms--the ladder Miro prefers to drift into a sea or sky world. As he said when the war broke out "I felt a deep desire to escape. I closed myself within myself purposely." Walking by the sea he read Rimbaud and Mallarme and explained that "the night music and the stars began...
...House janitor will win the $64,000 Question. His topic will be "The Spirit of Ancient Athens." A Cambridge commission for urban renewal will propose a modernization of Harvard's campus. President Pusey will counter by saying, "Harvard has no campus." Fire Chief Kilfoyle will drive the hook and ladder to Miami for repairs...