Word: rottener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Culture Center which he built in Almora to remind India of its ancient dances. Now, at 48, he hopes to open another one. Shankar's crusade to give Indian music back to the Indians has not always been easy. For much of modern India, with its "hateful, rotten towns, its drinking and enjoying," he cares little. The Indian public doesn't always care for Shankar either, he admits. It thinks his art is often "too high-no cheap songs," says Shankar, "no cheap jokes...
ILLINOIS. Adlai Stevenson, 48, quietly able socialite lawyer, former United Nations delegate, grandson and namesake of Cleveland's Vice President, dethroned the Republicans' two-term Governor Dwight Green, whose administration he had assailed as rotten with graft and corruption...
...Russian zone, just past Eisenach, Hensch's plane flew over one of the Red army training grounds. There were tank tracks through the fields and vehicles lined up next to the forest. Said Hensch: "I'd like to come over here with 20,000 pounds of rotten tomatoes some day instead of this load...
...Pravda editorial denounced the official Academy of Architecture for "slavishly toadying to the rotten bourgeois ideology." It appeared that architects had made the mistake of designing buildings that looked nonCommunist. Pravda struck equally hard at the architects who went in for many-columned neo-classical facades (like those in Washington, D.C.), and the functionalists whose housing projects looked like "military barracks." Just what, then, should a proper Soviet structure look like? Pravda didn't seem to know much about architecture, but it knew what it didn't like. Western architecture, said Pravda, "has reached a dead...
...Nissley McNair, 68, fiddle-playing onetime mayor of Pittsburgh (1933-36), whose unstatesmanlike didos made a circus of municipal affairs; of a heart attack; in St. Louis. McNair once dismissed all violators of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Act ("They had committed no crime," he said, "except competing in the rotten liquor business with Governor Pinchot"), failed in a Cromwellian move to dissolve a newly elected city council, resigned in a huff when the council balked at confirming his appointees...