Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fight for the Hungarians. But he feels that the U.S. has made a high moral commitment. And beyond that, he wonders how, if Congress is not even willing to grant help to the Hungarian refugees, the U.S. could possibly offer any sort of hope to Freedom Fighters if revolt were to break out in another Soviet satellite...
...Italian-born New Yorker, Joseph Stella (1879-1946). His abstraction. The Bridge (opposite), is a portrait of steel and sinews, of mind and muscle, of man's power and industrial might. The painting evokes an epoch in the history of American art, a period of revolt against "pretty pictures," of the discovery of a new world for the painter to paint. Applying the new techniques then coming into fashion, Painter Stella chose for his subject that typically American scene, the manmade, industrialized landscape...
...time it appears as if the only letters McGough and Baxter are likely to win in life are four-letter ones, but Baxter (like Author Ham) becomes an insurance salesman and McGough winds up amid semi-rustic bliss in Westport, Conn. There is a suitable epitaph on the abortive revolt of the generation of the '30s when the once-terrible McGough asks: "You want to see our cow, Baxter?'' Where are the sledge hammers of yesteryear...
Underlying Capitol Hill's revolt against foreign aid is widespread misunderstanding about what the term means. Lumped together as "foreign aid" are several quite different kinds of assistance-and none of them is the kind of aid first given in 1948 under the Marshall Plan. Undertaken to help Western Europe recover from its World War II battering, the Marshall Plan had done its work by the early 1950s and was replaced by an aid program basically designed to support the U.S.'s system of military alliances. Of the $3.8 billion total for foreign aid this year, about...