Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pompidou's tour but De Gaulle's book. There is, however, at least one consolation for Pompidou. Awaiting him when he returns to the Elysée Palace this week will be a specially printed copy of De Gaulle's new volume bearing the phrase, "Especially printed for . . ." Only 16 others are in existence, directed to such luminaries as Pope Paul, Mamie Eisenhower, Queen Elizabeth and Nikita Khrushchev...
Even before Stieglitz died in 1946, his wife had quit New York to spend the summer months in seclusion in the Southwest. Since then, she has been known as America's "leading woman artist"-a boldly condescending phrase-and largely dismissed as irrelevant by generations weaned on Pollock and Kline. To younger painters, her articulate images of mountain, bone and desert looked merely provincial. The milk train of history, having stopped at Tenth Street to pick up the Abstract Expressionists, could not be expected to halt at so remote a siding as Abiquiu, N. Mex. But if it could...
Their search takes them many places, but mainly to bars (for endless "brews"), hamburger drive-ins and to other hangouts where they hope to meet those dream girls who, as the phrase goes, will...
...doubts, about the morality of the war, about the right of the Vietnamese to be left alone, about what business the United States has in Asia anyway. This is all taken as given, as natural for what Shaplen calls "the strongest nation in the world." Nixon uses that phrase, too. And Shaplen and Nixon share essentially the same beliefs. The difference is that Shaplen has spent his life in Southeast Asia, has seen it all, has even reported it all, yet he still maintains his belief in America's right to protect her interests anywhere in the world, when...
...name summons up fond and durable memories: the gum-chewing philosopher of humor, the man of homely common sense that somehow added up to uncommon wisdom. Out of it he fashioned not one, but a half-dozen careers-rodeo bronco rider, walk-on humorist (before the phrase had even been invented), Ziegfeld Follies headliner, movie star, radio commentator, newspaper columnist -a one-man galaxy of talent. He lives again on the stage of Washington, D.C.'s Ford Theatre in a gifted recreation by James Whitmore in a show appropriately titled Will Rogers' U.S.A...