Word: northern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yocknapatawpha County, bound by the Tallahatchie and Yocknapatawpha Rivers in northern Mississippi, is one of the most remarkable landscapes created by the American imagination. Notably similar...
...everyday railroad travel. The truth was that the U.S. citizen, in his capacity as a passenger, had generally been regarded by the railroads as a damn nuisance. Until very recent times, the railroads have been mainly interested in freight. Empire Builder Jim Hill, gloomily contemplating one of his Great Northern Railway's Limiteds, once remarked: "A passenger train is like the male teat-neither useful nor ornamental...
...Just Finished." The film begins with routine shots of Matisse's birthplace (Cateau-Cambrésis, in northern France) and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he studied. The narrator tells nothing of what makes Matisse one of the greatest painters living. But the moment the camera closes in on the 78-year-old master himself, Matisse takes charge. Blinking a little behind his gold-rimmed glasses (the floodlights apparently bothered him), Matisse faces the camera and his invisible interrogator with a grandfatherly smile, direct and forceful...
Radcliffe and Harvard walked off with the two top spots in the 55-college Northern New England region of the National Student Association during elections at the NSA August convention at the University of Wisconsin...
...Northern New England opinion had polarized around Lawrence Jaffa 3Dv., on one hand and Earl Eames of M.I.T. on the other. Jaffa was the regional chairman last year and at the time of that election had been support of a coalition in the N.S.A. including Students for Democratic Action and leading Catholic schools...