Word: max
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Near Rapallo, where he has lived for the past 40 years, Britain's famed Satirist Sir Max Beerbohm ("the inimitable Max") quietly passed his 80th birthday. Among his gifts: a privately printed scarlet-bound book containing tributes from such younger men of letters as Robert Graves, T. S. Eliot, Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene...
...fortnight ago, at the mouth of a huge bottle-shaped abyss near the Spanish frontier in the Pyrenees, Loubens and twelve other Belgian, French and British spelunkers! led by famed Belgian Physicist Max Cosyns, set out to break their own record. Their wives, resigned to indulging their husbands' odd vacation hobby, stayed together at a nearby hotel...
...signers: John Chamberlain, John Dos Passos, Max Eastman, James T. Farrell, Alfred Kazin, William Phillips, Katherine Anne Porter, Allen Tate, Lionel Trilling, Peter Viereck, Robert Penn Warren, Thornton Wilder, Edmund Wilson...
...show in his work, the same effect that Renoir always achieved. Hopper's 20 contributions are comparatively dour, and less deft, but their directness and monumentality may help earn him a place in history next to the two great masters of American painting, Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins. Max Gubler's 42 paintings turn the Swiss pavilion into a sunlit peak, and assure the reputation of a hitherto little-known artist. "Talent and ideas," says Gubler, "are nothing. The job is to paint what you have seen and what you feel in the only way those things...
Major General Lemuel Mathewson, U.S. commander in Berlin, fired off a protest to the Soviet authorities, citing the collusion by Communist police. In Bonn, all members of the Bundestag except the Communists and the presiding officers (who have to stay) walked out on a speech by Max Reimann, the Communist leader in West Germany. Radio station RIAS cut Reimann's speech off the air, substituted music; and another station that carried Reimann's remarks in full was snowed under by complaints. West Berlin officials began installing street barriers of their own along the sector line...