Word: lewises
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"Your observations," wrote the President of the U.S. to an ambitious Army captain named Meriwether Lewis, "are to be taken with great pains and accuracy . . . and are to be rendered to the war-office ..." With that letter, in 1803, Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and William Clark off on their famous...
Long concerned over the proper preservation of federal documents, the Government felt that it had a good case. These papers, it maintained, had once been Government property. Therefore, the Government was still their owner and had the duty to protect them. But to private collectors across the U.S., the Government...
Last week, as the case went on. U.S. Archivist Wayne C. Grover spoke up to reassure the alarmists. "No one at the National Archives," he said, "has any inclination or intention whatsoever of attempting to gain physical possession of those historical documents currently in the possession of such responsible institutions...
At the conclusion of last week's AFL-CIO unity meeting in New York, one pundit called the merger "the miracle on Thirty-Fourth Street." Few people, remembering the rancorous night when John L. Lewis pulled his Committee of Industrial Organizations out of the American Federation of Labor, could imagine...
The boldest touch is the interpretation of Alcestis. Usually seen as a paragon of unselfishness, as played by Abigail Lewis she seems to take inhuman pleasure in her martyrdom. The loss of a foil for the other monsters is difficult to overcome--in this production impossible.