Word: lines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Architect Neutra and his fellow members in the cult of the clean line and glassy expanse are as hopelessly enslaved by their own fetishes-the concrete slab, the flat roof, the mantel-less fireplace-as were their predecessors of the gingerbread and rococo schools...
Boyle was sure the Dixiecrats could be brought into line. Said he: "Recognition is a politician's meat & drink. If they don't get it, they are nothing. I quoted Abraham Lincoln in my speech: 'I will go along with a man as long as he is going in my direction.' That's an invitation for sinners to march down the aisle. Those who don't march will be suffocated, as far as the National Committee is concerned...
...Communist-line Civil Rights Congress, sponsors of the concert, quickly denounced the sorry affair as an attempt to "lynch Robeson." It was hardly that. But it was an example of misguided patriotism and senseless hooliganism, more useful to Communist propaganda than a dozen uninterrupted song recitals by Paul Robeson...
...Miracle of the Bells. One of the steadiest job-seeking callers at Producer Janney's offices since the start of the Communist trial had been Carol Nathanson, a willowy, 26-year-old singer and actress who works under the name of Carol Nason and dabbles in party-line dialectics. Like many a show girl...
...three-pronged attack, Greek government troops had shattered Communist forces in the Grammos region and had captured 8,000-ft. Mt. Grammos, long a formidable guerrilla stronghold. Government artillery commanded the whole northern ridge. All that remained, announced Athens, was to cut off the rebels' line of retreat to the Albanian border...