Word: saws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major portion of the book is devoted to a thorough examination of the period from September 18 to 28, 1952. This week and a half provided an excellent test of objectivity, for it saw the controversial furor over the Nixon and Stevenson campaign funds...
Fretwell accepted, then started to worry. What would be controversial, yet might appeal to the working-class parish? Fretwell decided against tricky techniques and went to work. He had less than five months to do the paintings, but he finished them in time. "By Jove!" Lane gasped when he saw them. "These are controversial all right." Fretwell had portrayed the Holy Family in modern dress...
...bishop of Southwell, Dr. F. R. Barry, who consecrated the church, refused to be moved by the screaming headline in the London Daily Express (MADONNA WITH AN ETON CROP) or by what he saw in the panels. Said he: "The New Testament is translated into modern English. Why not into modern art?" After all, other artists in recent years have placed scenes from the Christian drama in Bethlehem, Conn., Haiti, India and a Nazi concentration camp. And the same incidents were painted in modern dress by Byzantine, Romanesque and Renaissance artists...
...bags a respectable rating. Actors like the show, despite a meager $250 stipend, because it requires no preparation, is fun to play, and gives them a welcome chance to ham it up. Vincent Price credits it with changing his career: he could get nothing but "heavy" roles until producers saw him clowning his way through successive performances on Pantomime Quiz...
...soon as Captain Pierre, commander of the Kong-Plong outpost in south Indo-China, saw the handsome, flaxen-haired corporal from Lyon, he felt that he had a solution to the problem of winning over certain Moi' tribes which had taken up a neutral position in the war with the Communist-led Viet Minh. After a workout with the colonial troops, Corporal Riesen, the author of this book, was sent into the mountainous jungle 'of central Viet Nam. Friendly Moi' chieftains offered him a bride. Corporal Riesen demurred ("She was only nineteen and very pretty . . . with...