Word: pre-world
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Society was formed by 1930s goalie Dave Mittell in honor of George W. 'Skeets' Canterbury '01, Harvard's goalie coach in the pre-World War II period. Like his charges, 'Skeets' was a rare breed...
...current wall poster campaign has roots that date back to the Manchu dynasty (1644-1911). when imperial proclamations were pinned to city and palace gates. In the pre-World War II Kuomintang Republic, Communists used posters to inflame the local population against "the landlords who eat our flesh" and "the traitors who sell China to Japan." Poster polemics reached a new level of sophistication during the Cultural Revolution, when fanatical Red Guardsmen used them to attack "capitalist readers" like Teng Hsiao...
...frightened liberals by keeping credit tight. The A.F.L.-C.l.O.'s George Meany called him "a national disaster" because of his "inhuman" insensitivity to unemployment. Actually, Burns has carried a lifelong feeling for the plight of the jobless. This is partly the result of his own experience as a pre-World War I Austrian immigrant to Bayonne, N.J., where at the age of ten he knocked on doors to help his father find work. He once proposed a national jobs program that would cast the Government as the employer of last resort. If he gave first priority to fighting inflation...
Here the distant antagonists are a crook (Jacques Dutronc), working his way up from the small time in pre-World War II France, and a cop (Bruno Cremer), who is working his way up in the police bureaucracy. The film dawdles perhaps too long over their early struggles for advancement. On the other hand, both are established as men of some decency in their private lives-a point to be borne in mind once Lelouch finally arrives at the heart of his film, namely the war years...
DIED. Naum Gabo, 87, Russian-born sculptor who founded constructivism, one of the most innovative movements in 20th century art; of cancer; in Waterbury, Conn. Gabo studied medicine and engineering in pre-World War I Germany while, at the same time, painting and sculpting. In 1920 he wrote Realistic Manifesto, which outlined the principles he was to espouse, rejecting sculpture as mass and calling for the use of space as a structural part of the object. After working in England (1935-46), Gabo moved to the U. S. and in 1952 became an American citizen. He created a dazzling, airy...