Word: maxed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Perry, Ellery Sedgwick, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, and William Dean Howells figure as editors, the issue goes on to new material by past contributors. Frost, Marquand, Hemingway, Thurber, Berenson, Morison, Isak Dinesen, President Conant, Jung, Slichter, Niebuhr, Osbert and Edith Sitwell, Auden, Wilder, McGinley, R. P. Lister, and the late Max Beerbohm march with deserved pomp and circumstance through the table of contents...
...Hong Kong, Canada's Trade Commissioner Max Forsyth Smith saw an opportunity to unload some of Canada's surplus wheat. Canada has not recognized Mao Tse-tung, and has no wish to offend the U.S. by doing so. But many Canadians blame the U.S.'s "dumping" of surplus wheat for Canada's own mountainous surplus. At week's end, with the approval of the government in Ottawa, Forsyth Smith prepared to go to Peking to see how much hard-pressed Mao Tse-tung would pay for a few million tons...
Freud hated to take drugs, and had rarely used them throughout his years of pain. Now he consented to take aspirin occasionally. On Sept. 21 he asked his physician, Max Schur, for a sedative: "It is only torture now and it has no longer any sense." Two days later, aged 83, he was dead...
...major new figure to arise between the two wars was Max Beckmann, who by endlessly propounding the question "Who am I?" arrived at emblematic pictorial symbols that crowded his canvases to the bursting point, but recovered much of Germany's lost humanism. The most intense group of artists was at the Bauhaus, where the new center of architecture, with its goal of "art and technology -a new synthesis," attracted U.S. Painter Lyonel Feininger, Josef Albers, Oskar Schlemmer and Klee. There Kandinsky combined abstract geometric forms with color in Composition VIII to arrive at a new and colder art that...
Metal Fatigue. The years pass; the people age as if dipped in a Max Factor makeup kit; and Author Caldwell has ample opportunity to punctuate her chapters with page-long diatribes in favor of God, the Fourth of July, the U.S. Constitution ("I worry only about the Amendments"), and against Satan, Communism, the graduated income...