Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Max Pechstein, 73, leading German expressionist painter, lecturer at the Berlin Academy of Plastic Arts; in Berlin. A leader of pre-World War I German impressionists, Pechstein built an international reputation in the 1920s, was denounced as "decadent" by the Nazis, saw most of his canvases destroyed during the war, returned to Berlin afterward to repaint many of his early works from memory (TIME...
...advance in philosophy made since the 13th century"), with physical science ("by insisting upon the now indefensible Aristotelian doctrine" that qualities, such as color, are objective instead of being in our senses) and with history. Back in the Anglican fold, he holds that the Bishop of Rome became pre-eminent in the church only because the Mohammedans "over whelmed the Patriarchs of Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem, isolated him of Constantinople, and left only the Patri arch of Rome in his former authority...
...probes was more than Hollywood's outraged trade press could bear in silence. Fumed the Hollywood Reporter: "It is insulting that Estes Kefauver should include the motion-picture industry in an investigation . . . of stag reels and other pornography . . . [This] is obviously nothing more than a pre-presidential publicity campaign conducted at our expense...
Adlai, say his political intimates, will tend to his fence-mending and make a few speeches, but he will not formally announce his availability until around the first of next year. Waiting until then would not be diffidence in the pre-convention 1952 manner. It is simply sensible timing: the early political bird often loses the worm...
Western diplomats took wing too. Britain's Harold Macmillan and France's Antoine Pinay headed for New York for pre-summit consultations. Chancellor Adenauer took off in a new Lufthansa plane and a scheduled lunch with Eisenhower. They now had something fresh to talk about...