Word: oscarization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What they saw, at the second annual exhibit of American Indian painting, were mostly bright, flat watercolors of tribal life and lore, like the prizewinning Dakota Duck Hunt by a Dakota Sioux named Oscar Howe. Jemez Indian José Rey Toledo entered a thoroughly detailed illustration of the sacred Zuñi Shalako dance, but Ma-Pe-Wi, a Zia Pueblo, forbidden by his tribe to paint ceremonials, contented himself with a cocktail-bar rendering of a buffalo hunt...
...Feeling of Power. Hecht has no feeling that Palestine is the land for him. At his comfortable riverside estate at Nyack, on the Hudson, where a Hollywood "Oscar" is used as a doorstop, he lay on a couch and told Correspondent Evelyn Webber of the London Evening Standard how it felt to be a vicarious terrorist. As the Standard reported it: "I just talk. Arouse and excite the reader, and make him fighting mad. . . . Writing propaganda is like falling in love with yourself and the veiled wonders in your own brain. While I write I grow mystic. A feeling...
...Heflin puts a lot of bite into his work; Newcomer Geraldine Brooks has looks, talent and vitality. Miss Crawford, though she is not quite up to her hardest scenes, is generally excellent, performing with the passion and intelligence of an actress who is not content with just one Oscar. In fact, the weaknesses in this unusual movie do not greatly matter beside the fact that a lot of people who have a lot to give are giving it all they...
...quarter of a century ago, at Commencement time, 520 seniors members of the class of 1922 were welcomed into the company of educated men by President Abbott Lawrence Lowell. The same afternoon they heard Senator Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama and the Attorney General of Massachusetts plead for the continuance of American traditions, internationalism, and disarmament...
Warner Bement Berthoff, Worthington. Ohio; Warren Bruce Cheston, Rochestor, N. Y.; Stuart Hamilton Cleveland, Hallowell, Mc.; Robert Paul Davis, Dorchester; Christopher Dean, Boston; Marc George Dreyfus, Brooklyn; Robinson Oscar Everett, Durham, N. C.; Edward Alvin Ward Franklin, New York City; Victor Mainard Kimel. Allston; Richard Gordon Kleindienst, Winslow, Ariz.; Richard Reinhold Niebuhr, Hamden, Conn.; Philip Maurice Stern, New Orleans; John Wermer, New York City...