Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Center will not investigate topics such as segregation, Handlin commented, because either at present or in the past, they have been the focus of lengthy research. Instead, he said, the group will examine important areas which historians have previously neglected...
None of the workers have been hurt "too badly," he said, noting that the industry is capable of making enough steel in nine months to last the country a year. He listed several social benefits such as pensions and unemployment compensations which strikers have procured in the past and observed that if strikes had been forbidden these might never have been obtained. "I'm in favor of strikes to my dying day," he declared...
...wasn't sick, he explained to his roommate, "As it happens, I've never felt better. Each day, for the past two years, I have told myself to do something daring; but Cambridge seems to stifle me. For instance, four days ago, when I played checkers, I planned to use a decisive attack. I decided to get all my kings out of the back row, and move my men in sort of a phalanx. But I didn't know...
...gloom in Florsheim's studio, more positive and colorful pictures began emerging. "I don't think most artists go through a blinding transformation; it's like a shingled roof with no start and no finish," he explains. "But I've gone farther in the past few years when it comes to communicating what is going on around us. The artist is an interpreter after all; he's building the culture just as other people build buildings. He's communicating emotion-half of which is supplied, naturally, by the viewer...
...Stones of Florence, by Mary McCarthy. An account of a great city's past calamities and surviving glories, written in some of the year's most readable prose...