Word: riches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York is the fountain-spout of U.S. culture, the intellectual gateway to England and Europe, a pump from which ideas-both good & bad-flood out over the world. It is a citadel of opera and art; its 32 legitimate theaters are the heartland of the U.S. stage. Its rich and haughty cosmetic queens determine the type of cream with which millions of women grease their faces before retiring; its beauty salons force them to cut their hair. Its Hattie Carnegies and Nettie Rosensteins dictate fashion; its $2 billion garment industry makes 80% of all U.S. women's dresses...
...dining room)* off the Plaza Espana, in Caracas, diners smacked their lips over a favorite dish: rice and black beans. Their approval marked the success of a significant experiment. For a long time, Dr. Nacio Steinmetz,† a Polish refugee scientist, had worked to develop a vitamin-rich soybean to look and taste like the common black bean which is the chief source of protein for millions of Latin Americans. The diners at the Comedor Popular had eaten the product of his work without knowing that it was anything more than the plain black bean...
University of Chicago's Chancellor Robert M. Hutchins advised German educators not to model themselves after the U.S.: "Americans have never had to be intelligent. America has grown rich and strong not because of its system of education but in spite of it. Only a wealthy and powerful country could survive an educational system so lacking in logic and ultimate...
...pleases. But the pictures that have brought him fame & fortune are not landscapes and murals but portraits. The gallery of John's sitters is a contemporary gallery of Britain's great ones: from Thomas Hardy to Winston Churchill and Queen Elizabeth. (It also includes some rich Americans and some spectacular unknowns, such as a haughty-looking farmer and a deep-eyed Jamaica girl named Aminta...
...Title for Everybody. By teatime on opening day, the artists had drifted away and the gallery had begun to fill up with John's rich and fashionable friends. "Augustus is no snob," one of his more feline cronies once remarked. "He'd like everybody to have a title." Queen Elizabeth had had a private showing two days earlier (her wartime sittings for John were interrupted by a German bomb; she is reported to think that she has taken on a bit too much weight to have the portrait continued...