Word: matter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pamphlet, similar to "Rules and Regulations Regarding College Studies" will state policy on distribution of printed matter, publications, rallies, posters, finances, and use of buildings...
...Central Action Committee formally declared itself "the center of all public life." The purge of "negatively disposed" politicians, judges, editors and teachers continued. Zdenek ("the Red Grandfather") Nejedly, the new Minister of Education, declared: "Stalin's picture will return to the classrooms. This is not merely a matter of a picture, but a conception of national life." The newspaper Svobodne Slovo (meaning "Free World") was retitled Nova Politika ("New Politics"). Foreign publications (including TIME & LIFE) were banned. The Ministry of Information instructed foreign correspondents to stop "malicious distortion of news." When asked whether the Ministry...
...matter how good the music was, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra's trustees weren't willing to go deep into debt to pay for it. To get back in the black, they chopped three weeks off the coming season-even though the season was already barely long enough to keep many of the players going. Said Conductor Fritz Reiner, "I am willing to have my salary cut. I am not willing to have the orchestra cut." So last week he quit...
...result was usually a scandal. Connoisseurs could find their way about like owls in the brown murk of academic painting; Manet's light-filled colors simply made them hoot. His subject matter, all agreed, was worse than vulgar. Manet had seen fit to invite common people off the street to pose for him, he imitated the impossible glare of sunshine, and he even dared to picture nudes in contemporary settings. Napoleon III himself pronounced Manet's Déjeuner sur I'Herbe (see cut) a threat to public morals. Public disgust was summed up in one word...
...game-chicken man, all other varieties are known as "dunghills," no matter how long their pedigrees, how good their egg-laying records, or how well they...