Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wearing new holes in his shoes, Adlai Stevenson marched west across Europe, stopped to lunch with 93-year-old Art Historian Bernard Berenson at a villa some 20 miles from Florence. In coffee-time seclusion the avowed future candidate for nothing and the acknowledged past master of art criticism swapped ideas on such world problems as U.S. v. Soviet education, American politics, Russia's practical advantage over the U.S. in not being bound to moral and political standards. "We must create respect for excellence," said Stevenson. Berenson agreed, suggested the stirring rallying cry: "Intellectuals of the world, unite...
...reply that it has great publicity value but give no clear notion of what the publicity is for or what they are selling. The city council hears more arguments, schedules a final meeting for next week to decide whether Missouri's teams will ride to glory past pinups of Caniff's (and NBC's) camp follower. Boomlay boom...
Theodore Alexander Gill has the lanky, bespectacled good looks that go with Hollywood's idea of a successful minister -but not the sweet disposition. As managing editor for the past two years of the nondenominational Christian Century, prickly Presbyterian Gill has told off churchmen, politicians and the public with a pungency rarely equaled in U.S. religious journalism. Last week Gill announced that he was leaving the Century to head a seminary himself-San Francisco Theological (enrollment...
...year bracket-or even $15,000-could join a country club and enjoy it. Today, country club managers quote J. P. Morgan's dictum on yachts: He who asks how much it costs cannot afford it. Country club dues and assessments are rising fast. In the past few years, dues doubled (to $350-$1,000 plus 20% federal tax) in some clubs; they went up as much as 120% in Detroit alone last year, almost 20% in Los Angeles in the past few months. The villain is the cost spiral that hits country clubs so hard that only...
Beyond Time. As Seamarks opens with majestic waves of imagery, the poet celebrates the sea as the ever-renewing source and symbol of life. In endless variations on this theme, Perse evokes man's grandest and loneliest moments, his immemorial past, his intimations of a nobler future. With its Invocation. Strophe, Chorus and Dedication-and its sensuous neopagan salute to raw nature-Seamarks reads a little like a drama put on for the approval of the gods on Olympus. A long section symbolizing union with the sea might pass for impassioned love poetry. The final evocation...