Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stalin prizes, the architects were accused of building "utterly unjustified tower superstructures, decorative colonnades and porticoes . . . as a result of which, state resources have been overspent to an amount with which more than one million square meters of living floor space could have been built." Singled out for special mention: Moscow Architect Alexander V. Vlasov, who "not only failed to conduct a proper struggle against this extravagance, but [was] guilty of superfluities in designs he drew...
...academic, stylistic history of modern English art could be written without a mention of this artist," intoned London's Times last week, "but to omit him is to miss one of the most remarkable figures of the century." The Manchester Guardian agreed: "The most original artist of time a mystic to whom nothing is commonplace." The painter in question was Britain's puckish, eccentric Stanley Spencer, 64, who was being honored last week with a retrospective of 83 oils at London's Tate Gallery. The paintings represented a lifetime devoted to religious themes−all depicted...
Last week Herman continued his spray attack with a 79-page book, You and Segregation, which, while avoiding direct mention of Walter George, nevertheless emphasized the fact that Author Talmadge is a far more violent critic of the Supreme Court's desegregation decision than Senator George, who has made a career out of moderation...
...Sweater. Mary McCarthy has marked most stages of her life with a book or story or critical essay-not to mention several thousand yards of the brightest conversation ever to come from a pretty woman's lips. Her first book, The Company She Keeps (1942), told of a girl who suffers guilt by association of one kind or another with a Yale man, an art dealer, and, most painfully-because the fellow was no intellectual-in a Pullman compartment with a man in a Brooks Brothers shirt. The Oasis (1949) was a sailor's farewell to the remnants...
...whom many of the faculty members cast their votes. Outwardly, there was nothing much to set her apart from the conventionally unconventionalVassar girls who, on graduation, shec their pearls and Brooks sweaters anc swarm down the Hudson to arrive, after false start or two, in a marriage suitable for mention in the Alumnae Magazine...