Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In August 1905, aboard the U.S.S. Mayflower on Long Island Sound off the Roosevelt summer place, Sagamore Hill, T.R. met the plenipotentiaries of Russia and Japan. These talks led to 1) the Treaty of Portsmouth, N.H.; 2) restoration of balance of power; 3) the Nobel Peace Prize for T.R. T.R...
What T.R. now did was the greatest single act of his presidency. He sent the U.S. fleet around the world. T.R. did it to show Japan, and Europe as well, that the U.S. was not only a world power but a great world power, able to defend its interests and...
Perhaps the problem was more psychological than material-but that did not lessen its seriousness. Last week was a case in point: despite mounting unemployment figures, the Administration was confident of the basic strength of the U.S. economy, and President Eisenhower told why in a special message (see The Economy...
Admitting that The Heroic Encounter is a personal interpretation, Dorothy Norman (whose work was in part financed by the Bollingen Foundation) digs deep to find the meaning of the symbols artists have used through the ages. She finds the beasts of art to be two-faced. The regal lion she...
The barrier between the production and real dramatic meaning was built by too much effort rather than too little. By trying too hard to be epic, the director misses small and thoughtful values Novel staging and the like is to be commended but it can't stand by itself. The...