Word: semi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...results were still not up to the colorful semi-abstractions he painted before the party high command ordered a change to "socialist realism." But Guttuso had progressed a long way from his first tortured attempts to illustrate the party line (TIME, Oct. 2, 1950). "Of all those who participate in the neo-realistic current," wrote the critic of Fiera Letteraria, "Guttuso stands alone . . . with his singular and exemplary force of composition." The public liked Renato's new work, too; most of the pictures were sold in two weeks...
...Hnry IV" opens tonight for a five day run as the Harvard Dramatic Club's second production of the season. A cycloramic (semi-circular) backdrop of tapestries has made the indoor court of the Fogg Museum a natural location...
...competitive market in the world. It is almost an axiom abroad that any mass-produced article that could be sent to the U.S. is being efficiently produced by American competitors. While U.S. producers thrive on competition, most foreign businessmen shun it. Thus they tend to concentrate on basic commodities, semi-finished goods for special industrial use, or national specialties unlike any produced in the U.S.-Scotch whiskey, British woolens, French wines or Belgian lace...
...Mary's-and England's-tragedy, concludes Biographer Prescott, that no such simple graciousness was workable. The England she had imagined in her semi-exile in no way resembled the England she came to rule. What Mary called the "new" religion was already "old" to many Englishmen. The Protestant party was not, as she imagined, composed of a few erring men who had "been misled, or frightened into the new ways." It was a powerful, well-rooted faction made up partly of ardently religious men, partly of landlords who dreaded that Mary would give back to the Church...
...Grenville Clark '03 and Henry F. DuPont '03. During the seven years previous to the construction of the Herbarium, this group sent three formal protests to the Corporation, about the proposed move from the Arboretum. The dissenters contend that the Arboretum "always should be, as in the past, a semi-independent institution of Harvard." Moving to Cambridge, they feel, would thwart the purpose of Arnold's bequest...