Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists, Henry Wallace and his opposite numbers in Europe use against the U.S. Will there be a depression in the U.S.? Says Miss Ward: maybe. There are few present signs that a depression is imminent but there are also few signs that the U.S. has learned how to master the bust & boom cycle. Will the U.S. return to isolationism and leave Europe in the lurch? Says Miss Ward: definitely not. Is the U.S. imperialist? Says Miss Ward: nonsense...
...seems really to be a GI, easily identifiable even to regional distinctions. Paul Kelly, as the general with the decision to make, and Jay Fassett '16, as the general more interested in another cluster than in ending the war, are both good. And James Whitmore, as a sergeant and master at the delicate art of insulting officers without any personal danger, just about walks off with the show. The direction of John O'Shaughnessy, in spite (and because) of what you've read above is really the best thing in the play. It was a very difficult...
...Matisse's birthplace (Cateau-Cambrésis, in northern France) and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he studied. The narrator tells nothing of what makes Matisse one of the greatest painters living. But the moment the camera closes in on the 78-year-old master himself, Matisse takes charge. Blinking a little behind his gold-rimmed glasses (the floodlights apparently bothered him), Matisse faces the camera and his invisible interrogator with a grandfatherly smile, direct and forceful...
...anthropology; of coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan. A poetess who first took up anthropology as a hobby, Dr. Benedict wrote her monumental Patterns of Culture to document her theory that whole societies behave like human personalities. When she co-authored The Races of Mankind in 1943 to refute the Nazi master-race doctrine, a House committee found her statements on racial equality "controversial," banned the book from Army distribution...
...asked her master he'd give me a cask...