Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people of this nation made a very serious decision last November," shouted Long. "They did not expect us to simply sit here and vote for the Eisenhower program . . . However, we are told when we consider these bills that in order to make the bills vetoproof, we must pare them down ... to the point where they have about one-quarter of the significance we intended. As a result the bills are 90% Eisenhower bills and 10% Democratic amendments...
Sixty-two school superintendents from throughout the nation opened discussions yesterday at the ten-day meeting of the Advanced Administrative Institute of the Graduate School of Education...
...century, the French nation has taken more eagerly and seriously to organ composition than any other in the world. Mrs. Pardue consequently performed four recent works. Improvisatoy bombast characterizes the Hymne d'actions de graces by the blind organist Jean Langlais. Messaien's fine Banquet celeste, though an early work, bears the clear stamp of its composer, who has refused to adhere to any "school." It is seraphic, and mystically inconclusive. Jehan Alain's lucid Phrygian Ballade and familiar Litanies point up the great loss we suffered when this young composer was tragically killed in World...
After the war, Terrell tried his hand at a twelve-minute'film called Smellodrama -an odorously unsuccessful precursor of Mike Todd Jr.'s untried Smell-O-Vision (TIME, Nov. 17). Then in 1949, Terrell opened the nation's first musical arena-theater tent at Lambertville, although " 'tent' was one of the few four-letter words you didn't use in the theater." To Broadway's surprise, he cleared $20,000 his first season. This year Terrell tentacles will scoop...
...nation's railroads, many of which have been chugging along unspectacularly, have finally begun to pick up steam from the economic boom. The two biggest U.S. roads, the Pennsylvania and the New York Central, last week reported climbing profits. The Pennsy's $4,512,912 profit for May (34? a share) set a 2½-year record, changed the big road's $2,264,466 deficit at the beginning of the month into a solid profit for the year's first five months. For the third month in a row, the Central's earnings were...