Word: question
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fairness, though these are good Picassos they are not among the best. Why, is a question not easy to answer. Their color could not be improved. Their handling of shapes is as fine as anyone might hope. In theory everything is au juste. In practice, from afar, the two paintings are exciting and of the highest caliber. Yet, on successive viewings they lose impact where the Cezannes and earlier Picassos get better. The two still-lifes become vulnerable to the charge that they are more decorative than substantial...
...over the fact that all our city fathers" and local civic groups were happy about the proposal. But one city father, DeGuglielmo countered "I never indicated any overwhelming joy over the proposal." He termed the proposal "utterly fantastic," and doubted that it could be put on the land in question...
...Primary Question. In Marion, Iowa, D. H. Smith announced that he would be a candidate for state senator, said that he had not yet decided whether to run as a Republican or a Democrat...
...much for the career-woman question. But there is another hour to fill-plenty of time to solve the race problem too. So meanwhile, back at the cold-water flat, the Negro maid (Juanita Moore) is having trouble with her light-skinned daughter, who is yearning for the day when she will be old enough to leave home and pass herself off as white. The day comes, the girl goes, and the scriptwriters settle down to the point of the picture: an interminable scene in which the poor old Negro maid dies of a broken heart. Excerpts...
...accounts of these very different men's wartime experiences make for vastly different books. Yet both in a sense try to answer the combat soldier's battlefield question: "What am I doing here...