Word: mass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Americans feel that your stupendous road-building program should include the erection of a monument to Henry Ford, who started the mass production of automobiles that revolutionized the American way of life, making the superhighways a necessity...
...would cost them their lives-undoubtedly put up a vigorous fight: Molotov, attacking Khrushchev's inept foreign policy; Malenkov, agilely trying to save his skin; and the sour-voiced Kaganovich, full of murderous hate for the man who had once been his protege. But they lost because the mass of the party was against them and had ordained that they should be formally shorn of their great offices and privileges. In its final stage the meeting was probably less of a democratic gathering than a ghastly charade, designed to provide Khrushchev with his "scabby sheep" thesis (i.e., a cleansing...
Such works are clearly not aimed at a mass audience, though Tobey's delicate, calligraphic style and the general Orientalism and mysticism of the Northwest painters were thought likely to be received sympathetically in the Far East. Aimed at letting the elite of Europe and Asia know the kind of art being produced in the U.S., the shows fortunately are accompanied by curators (Callahan is with the European exhibition) who can make explanations to at least a certain number of puzzled art-lovers...
Circuit Judge John Prunty of Miami last week announced his decision: six-year-old Hildy Ellis could remain with Mr. and Mrs. Melvin B. Ellis of Brookline, Mass., the Jewish couple who took her ten days after she was born out of wedlock to her Roman Catholic mother, Marjorie McCoy. Judge Prunty ruled that the Ellises were fit parents, approved their application to complete adoption procedures under Florida law. The decision ended six years of litigation and controversy: Hildy's mother had persuaded a Massachusetts court to order the Ellises to give Hildy up so that her mother could...
Married. Joseph Nye Welch, 66, Boston lawyer, chief Army counsel in the Army-McCarthy hearings (April-June 1954); and Agnes Rogers Brown, sixtyish, widow of Charles W. Brown Jr., one of Welch's closest friends; both for the second time; in Brookline, Mass...