Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dulcinea Smith is a witless, bromidic, meddlesome but well-meaning woman with a mania for engineering other people's lives. She gives a weekend house-party, and manages to have a finger in every pie and a foot in every mouth. She tries to fix her husband's business deals...
The Weill renaissance is a strange phenomenon, for in many of his scores he simply echoed himself. Moreover, the lyrics by the late Marxist poet Bertolt Brecht, while brilliant in their own guttersnipe way, carry little of their original meaning for the U.S. in 1958: harsh cynicism can date as...
The eleventh of twelve children, Giacomo had little formal training, after the third grade went to work as a stonecutter, house painter, plasterer. He eventually managed to save for a month's trip to Paris, where he spent nights on park benches, days in the Louvre. In 1938 he...
U.S. medicine last week witnessed the strange spectacle of two large, well-meaning foundations fighting over which one has the franchise to help the sick in a large and serious disease field. After 20 years of vigorous life, during which it raised $560 million (virtually all from the March of...
New Realists. Madame Sarraute, the Russian-born wife of a Paris lawyer, has been acclaimed a leader of a group called the New Realists, who urge a new kind of objectivity, which is at once both more detached and more intense. "In this future universe of the novel," says Novelist...