Word: oscarization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Puerto Ricans rejoiced. The U.S. Department of the Interior, which helped push the election bill through Congress, was happy, too. Said Under Secretary Oscar L. Chapman: "People and nations all over the world . . . will see in [this law] evidence that the U.S. puts into practice its principles of democracy and self-determination...
...Council chairman, Poland's Oscar Lange, called for the vote that really counted-the noes on the U.S. motion as a whole. Quickly he shot up his own hand. Then Russia's sullen Andrei Gromyko raised his. Thus, for the eleventh time in the short history of the United Nations, Russia had used the veto. The Balkan peace watch was dead...
...Fair and in the Library of Congress, and one-man shows in Detroit and Manhattan gave him a U.S. reputation. But things have not always gone well with him at home. He painted the Via Sacra on the walls of a modern church near Belo Horizonte, which Architect Oscar Niemeyer, friend and fellow Communist, designed. The archbishop refused to consecrate the church (TIME, May 13, 1946). Says Portinari: "The priests don't like my way of expressing, sacred things. They want Virgins that look like Ingrid Bergman and Christs like Robert Taylor. For me, a saint is a saint...
...Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives (Goldwyn) was honored as the best story (by Robert E. Sherwood from a MacKinlay Kantor novel), and Myrna Loy was named the year's best actress for her work in the picture. Brussels' equivalent to Hollywood's Oscar, a bronze statuette of St. Michel, went to René Clair's French Le Silence Est d'Or (Man About Town), starring Maurice Chevalier. A special award went to Roberto (Open City) Rossellini's Italian Paisa (Country Town). French Gerard Philipe was honored as the year...
...Freshmen in Group 1 standing are Robert Ashenhurst, Jero W. Bruner, Geoffrey D. Bush, Thompson M. Clarke, Francis F. Chen, Hampton Davis, Oscar DePriest, Samuel I. Epstein, P. W. Gifford, Jr., S. William Green, Ulrich E. Kruse, Vaslilos G. Letson, Gavin Miller, James Schlesinger, V. E. Starzinger, and M. B. Yarmolinsky...