Word: max
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spring of 1936, during the preparation for the Tercentenary Celebration, an attempted repeal of the oath failed in the House of Representatives. Mather, along with other members of the Faculty such as Max Lerner and F. O. Matthiessen, formed the Harvard University chapter of the American Federation of Teachers...
...Miracle (Warner), a vast $3,000,000 pseudoreligious epic, is a travesty of the solemn pageant produced in 1911 by the late Max Reinhardt. Reinhardt's drama advanced through a series of large visions of the human condition, as successively they assailed a nun who had been lured from her convent by the Prince of this World, personified in a fluting cripple. Hollywood's version translates these noble obscurities into terms that the average moviegoer will more restfully recognize-right up to the moment when he falls asleep...
...Couple and August Macke's strident Three Female Nudes.) Kokoschka's glowing, passionate lithographs, based on religious themes, have a piety to them that the harsher variants of Expressionism could not possibly allow. The culminating work of this fine show is the superb portrait of the famed German director Max Reinhardt; it glows with the tempestuousness and conviction of genius...
Testifying before the House Committee on Legislative Oversight in Washington, Max Hess, owner of a department store in Allentown, Pa., said that at least four leading newspaper columnists had been paid $1,000 each by his store for making "good will" visits. The newsmen: Hearst Headline Service's Columnist Bob Considine, New York Journal-American's TV Critic Jack O'Brian, the San Francisco Chronicle's Stanton Delaplane, and Associated Press Columnist Hal Boyle...
Beyond Survival, by Max Ways. What the U.S. needs, the author argues in a trenchant review of the nation's foreign policy, is a coherent public philosophy...