Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even more groveling was his account of himself: "Before the June 1957 [showdown] I was not with the antiparty group on the question of reorganizing industrial management and the question of developing the virgin lands. I spoke and fought for the party line. But sad as it is for me, the fact remains that in 1957, when the antiparty activity of Malenkov, Kaganovich, Molotov and Shepilov was in full swing, I joined them. As chairman of the council of ministers at the time, I was not only their accomplice but their nominal leader. The antiparty group met and plotted...
...caricatures." When he was 16, Feininger went to Europe to study music. Soon he switched to art and landed a long-distance job with the Chicago Sunday Tribune, drawing two comics of his own invention The Kinder-Kids and Wee Willie Winkle's World. These light-footed and sad-eyed fantasies led to his first serious paintings such as Pink Sky (see color...
Mamma, she's a sad...
CIVIL RIGHTS: Questioned about the defiance by Alabama officials of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission (see The South), President Eisenhower disappointingly declined "to get into the basic question." He did describe the Alabama situation as "a rather sad sort of thing," adding: "What I would like to get help in pleading for throughout the country is respect...
...phrasing is a stroke of genius. Only such a cautiously pragmatic change would stand a chance of gaining University Hall approval. The Freshmen have learned that Deans do not respond to big pictures, but can be sympathetic to little steps. In a way it is sad to see ambition stilled in such young and vigorous hearts, but one must be realistic, and the Freshmen have learned their lessons well. Their cause is a good one and their tactics commendable...