Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minutes. But Menshikov's visit lasted 32 minutes. When press photographers asked Press Secretary James Hagerty about pictures, he said flatly: "No, we never have pictures of these calls." But a moment later his aide hove into view, calling, "Photographers!" The President himself had decided to break the rule...
...even more painful than my sciatica." For years, audiences approached screen music with what the industry regards as a more eupeptic attitude: they ignored it. Although isolated scores such as Max Steiner's music for Gone With the Wind caught the public fancy, Hollywood's rule-of-baton used-to be that a good score is one the audience does not hear.* Now film scores have become big sellers on the pop market. The change was foreshadowed by The Third Man theme and by Dimitri Tiomkin's High Noon; both tunes were dramatically part of the movies...
...color pages), and its changing patterns have reflected the country's historic development. The first Japanese gardens were polychromic, glowing with the blossoms of plum and cherry trees, calm with the gentleness of willows, luxurious with the gaiety of bright flowers. But a warrior class crushed the rule of the aristocracy at the end of the 12th century, and Japan's classic era faded into its middle ages. The warriors wanted no part of luxury, opened their gates to the disciplines of a religious philosophy imported from China: Zen Buddhism. Austere Zen masters became the new architects...
...campus. That year Yale offered only one religion course to its undergraduates, and only three students bothered to enroll. Lovett no sooner took over the course than its fame began to spread. He allowed his students to smoke and sip Cokes in class, insisted on only one rule: "If you must sleep, do it in a dignified position." But in spite of such informality, "Cokes and Smokes" proved to hundreds of students that the study of religion could be a rigorous and fascinating intellectual discipline...
Consideration of the perennial problem of enforcing the frequently-ignored rule requiring the presence of a chaperone in a man's apartment led to less concrete results. The Board of Hall Presidents is expected to consider this matter...