Word: sectional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congratulations to Alaska for her alert-looking, clear-eyed, virile sons, native or adopted. The contrast between their expressions and the Beat Generation pictures (in the Books section) is most impressive...
...Portland, Ore. and dabbled in union politics for 22 years, gave up his law practice in 1943, when he became a member of the A.F.M.'s executive board. His grey-flannel-suited unionism is as remote from Jimmy's overpadded whoop-and-holler style as the violin section from the brasses. The Petrillo breed, lamented Jimmy last week, is extinct: "I used to be able to say to the bosses, 'Go to hell,' and they went to hell. Now you tell them 'Go to hell,' and they tell you back...
Around the nation, editors are trying to ride out the recession without major cutbacks by intensive downhold drives that are paring extras to the bone. The Denver Post dropped a Sunday pictorial section, got the cooperation of unions in cutting expenses and overtime, is now putting out the paper with 3,000 fewer man-hours per week than before the recession. In San Antonio the Express Publishing Co., owner of the morning Express and afternoon News, combined the two Saturday papers into one fat morning Express-News. Few newspapers are hiring; few are even replacing newsmen who quit...
...give a cross section of this beneficent presence, from, the most naive form to the most sophisticated, the U.S. fair staff appointed experts to pick 181 paintings, sculptures and craft objects, and divided them into four different exhibits. Contemporary sculpture was placed in the pavilion's interior pool; displays featuring 41 examples of native Indian art, a wide selection of American folk art, and, most controversial of all, 44 paintings by 17 artists under 45 now working from Manhattan to San Francisco, were spread out elsewhere in the building...
...Advanced Placement courses approximate college-level work with varying success. Because of expenses of buying books (a public school does not require students to purchase their books), the Advanced Placement History section is confined too closely to a text for its readings. The English class, however, gives conscientious students a workout which matches that of lower level Harvard Humanities course. In 1955-56, one third of the year was spent on drama and the work centered around a theme once known to freshmen here as "Ideas of Good and Evil in Western Literature." During the winter, poetry, essays...