Word: relationships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Matthiessen will open the evening with a short talk on the social implications of art and the relationship of the artist to his society, in which he will evaluate some of the contributions of Marxist critics. Following this, he will direct a discussion from the floor...
...parent who, wisely or unwisely, consciously or unconsciously, shielded him from the full weight of the world, comes home to the heart and mind. America has lost its mother. . . . Great Britain has been that . . . and she has evoked the devotion, the suspicion, the resentment which fits into the personal relationship between a powerful, strong-willed parent and her equally strong-willed and powerful...
...relationship between the prairie land and the men who exhausted it is symbolized by the life of redheaded Pier Frixen and his wife, Nertha. Pier took over his father's farm in 1918. But he quarreled with the old man about marrying silver-blonde Nertha, who was half Norwegian. His father wanted Pier to marry a Frisian girl. "Soan, dy faem is net goed genoch [Son, that maiden is not good enough]," he said. Pier raged at the old man's nonsense about Ald Fryslan on the North Sea shore. So his father went out to brood, looking...
...York's LaGuardia airport last week, U.S. Ambassador to Britain Lewis W. Douglas posed patiently for photographers. He admitted to reporters that times were "somewhat difficult." A close relationship between the U.S. and Great Britain was, he felt, "one of the important factors in the establishment of a lasting peace." Mr. Truman's foreign policy speech clearly showed that "this time we are not going to withdraw from foreign affairs...
Most big U.S. corporations are so widely owned that stockholders and top management are complete strangers to one another. To Walter S. Mack Jr., president of Pepsi-Cola Co., this seemed a sad thing. By establishing a chummier relationship, Mack thought he might turn Pepsi-Cola's 22,000 stockholders into 22,000 active Pepsi-Cola boosters...