Word: peake
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fullback play was again an important factor in the varsity showing. Junior Chris Provensen, at right full, played almost the entire game and seemed to be as good as his last year's peak. Left full Lanny Keyes used his size and toe to check most Williams attacks effectively...
...values, all of which came into conflict with the North, a region claiming moral superiority and possessing physical superiority. Southern writers became increasingly aware of the value of regionalism and fought the omnivorousness of Megapolis the exclusive formation of literary taste by New York. This moment reached its peak with the Southern Agarian movement led by Robert Penn Warren...
...rubber-stamp ranch-house community of Levittown, Pa. (pop. 60,000), the vacant house at 30 Darkleaf Lane last week came alive with a distinction all its own. From one roof peak flew an American flag, and from another-spotlighted by night-the stars and bars of the Confederacy. Each evening the house of the Confederacy was crowded with the members of the newly formed Dogwood Hollow Social Club who worked hard at a hard-boiled bad-neighbor policy. With windows wide open they chattered loudly over coffee, volumed up a phonograph, harmonized on Old Black Joe, aiming all this...
...German resurgence is coming to a peak in the U.S. this fall. In Manhattan this week the Museum of Modern Art will open the largest German modern art show to be seen in the U.S. in more than 25 years-178 paintings, sculptures and prints. Next week Boston's Museum of Fine Arts will open its "European Masters of Our Time" exhibition, including 44 works by modern Germans. Three handsome and scholarly monographs on German 20th century art are now rolling off the presses.* Significantly, the artists most praised today are without exception the ones banned or exiled...
...befits one of the most widely read authors in the U.S., Erskine Caldwell, 53, lives handsomely and high. Perched on a sheer-sloped San Francisco peak, his rented modernistic house is on the second-highest street in town. To get in the mood for his methodical 9-to-5 workday, Caldwell simply pulls down the shades to shut out the magnificent view. In the evenings Caldwell and his fourth wife dine out, often at Trader Henri's, a favored hangout of the beard-and-sandal Bohemian set. Says Caldwell: "I don't go for the atmosphere...