Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Alcide de Gasperi, 73, one of the principal founders of Italy's Christian Democratic Party and its pre-eminent postwar Premier (1945-53); of a heart ailment; in Sella Val Sugana, Italy (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Sunday-morning air raid in London as described by William Sansom in Building Alive. Often, Horizon's writers add a reflective dimension to war reporting possible only to men who have known a country before it became the enemy. In Rhineland Journal, Poet Stephen Spender sensitively compares pre-Nazi to postwar Germany and also tells of the human ruins in terms of a brilliant scholar friend who kowtowed to the regime and became an empty, self-hating shell...
...Accept . . ." But there was still plenty to worry about. Traditionalists among the Indians are opposed to the burgeoning Native Church because they fear it undercuts the older, pre-Christian tribal customs. Many Christian missionaries want to see the church outlawed altogether. In 1940 the Navajo Tribal Council forbade the use of peyote, and this year arrested 13 members...
...remedy for high profits from coffee speculation, said FTC, is to clamp down on the New York Coffee & Sugar Exchange. One bill to regulate coffee trading has been passed by the Senate, but it is now tucked away in a corner of the House Agriculture Committee. In the pre-adjournment legislative jam, chances are that the bill will stay in the corner...
...misty grey seascape in 1832, the painting was hung at the Royal Academy next to John Constable's Opening of Waterloo Bridge. When Turner went to the gallery to varnish his painting for exhibition, he found Constable busily brightening his Waterloo Bridge with vermilion and lake. Silent, the pre-impressionist master watched, comparing Constable's work with his own. Then Turner fetched his palette and gave his Helvoetsluys an extraordinary touch: a round daub of red lead on the cold, grey...