Word: posts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Candidate Lleras thus becomes the unexpected holder of delicately balanced power under his own post-Rojas plan for joint Liberal-Conservative control of Colombia. In the original deal, backed by the junta, political posts throughout the nation were to be split fifty-fifty between Liberals and Conservatives for a cooling-off period of twelve years; the first President would be a Conservative, the next a Liberal, and so on. Hopes were that the truce would cancel out the traditional inter-party hatreds that underlie the rural civil war; at the end of twelve years normal two-party politics could take...
...Dulsa & Jerque." Truth was Winchell had voted in at least the last two national elections (Elsa claimed that she got her information from a 1952 New York Post series) and could prove it; in 1956, he had proudly posed for a picture as he entered a Manhattan precinct booth to strike a blow for Ike and Dick. Said Walter: "I said to NBC I want them to show that picture of me voting every Tuesday until I got bored. Not until they got bored, but until I got bored." Last week Jack Paar, henceforth answerable to NBC's brass...
...Bauhaus. Paul Klee is an artist who needs no post-scripts or excuses. His touch may become a trifle too casual at times but it never loses its integrity. Its poetry is always there to dwarf the importance of titles and methods. In short, his work stands of its own strength. A comparison of Klee's work with a wall of Kandinskys opposite, is a course in aesthetics all by itself. The similarities involved are sufficiently tangible to have linked the names of Klee and Kandinsky in the public eye. The differences, however, are more significant. Klee is the depth...
...accordance with the club constitution, the remaining members of the committee selected three "temporary appointees" to serve until the next meeting of the whole membership. Gary M. Little '61 was unanimously elected to take over the post of activities chairman, vacated by William A. K. Lake...
...think that the desire to set young America aside as a tragic product of history and economics is nothing so much as it is "our generation's" vanity. There is some sentiment around today that young people, post World War II, parallel in their reaction to their problems the young people of post World War I. Instead of setting up shop at Gertrude Stein's or Pamplona, we are setting up shop inside ourselves, and watch out, brother, we are going to come up with some great literature. This is, I think, an academic approach. All the talk we hear...