Word: pastings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...father's death in 1942, Walter Annenberg pledged on the front page of his most prized legacy, the Philadelphia Inquirer, to live the rest of his life in the City of Brotherly Love and to uphold "the great traditions" of the newspaper. Annenberg stopped living in Philadelphia this past April when his long friendship with Richard Nixon got him a new address in London as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Last week he announced he was also giving up the Inquirer. He sold both the morning Inquirer and its sister paper, the afternoon Daily News...
Union leaders have hated Boulwarism for years, but division between G.E.'s two big unions-the International Union of Electrical Workers and the United Electrical Workers-kept them from making a successful issue over it in the past. Now the entire labor movement is committed to the fight to kill Boulwarism. The strike has created an unusual alliance of twelve unions as disparate as the teamsters, the steelworkers and the autoworkers. Meany has pledged the entire A.F.L.-C.l.O. to support the war "until the hour of victory...
...recent past, Producer-Director Stanley Kramer has been notorious for the fustian message movie (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner; Ship of Fools). But in his adaptation of Robert Crichton's bestseller he has wisely opted for entertainment. As the boozy, scapegrace official, Quinn delivers a prosciutto performance-but that is exactly what the part requires. Strutting on the cobblestones, cowering before Rosa, exchanging peasantries with the Germans, he becomes a figure of comic-operatic stature. If Quinn is Italo, Magnani is Italy. The ancient sorrow and strength of the nation are inscribed on a face that...
This thesis makes relevant all of Fowles' seemingly disjointed literary games, documentary digressions and attempts to make the Victorian past appear imminent to our present. In a cunningly oblique way, the whole novel employs an old-fashioned method to draw a timeless moral. As Fowles' epigraph from Marx puts it: "Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to man himself...
Pusey and Dean Ford added, however, that scientists engaged in "pure research" financed by the Defense Department do not necessarily share that department's appraisal of their work. They noted that, in past years, the Defense Department had said that a project had military applications if even if it merely "increased the nation's capability...