Word: shattuck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BANQUET YEARS (306 pp.)-Roger Shattuck-Harcourt, Brace...
...just a banquet; it was "one of the landmarks of the pre-World War I era." That is the thesis of Author Roger Shattuck, Fulbright scholar and assistant professor of Romance languages at the University of Texas. In his breathlessly complicated period study, Shattuck takes as true a highly debatable line written in 1913 by Poet Charles Péguy-"The world has changed less since Jesus Christ than it has in the last thirty years"-and discusses the nature of the change as expressed in French art. Author Shattuck has chosen four French men of the arts to exemplify...
...when he woke up in the morning, he could "smile a little at his paintings." His now famed works suggested the bright but prim world of a precocious child, its whims ranging from shaggy liona to mustached men stiffly springing as they play "le football." With Rousseau, thinks Author Shattuck, begin "the childlike tendencies" of modern art, as it starts from scratch again after centuries of traditional maturity...
...prefer going it alone, since they think that Knowland's unpopular right-to-work program is hurting party chances, and furthermore, that Nominee Knowland cannot beat Democratic Nominee Pat Brown, who led him by 606,000 votes in the cross-filed primary votes. Cf Los Angeles Lawyer Ed Shattuck, Knowland's campaign manager and Republican national committeeman, quit the Knowland campaign. Shattuck was criticized because he ran an ineffectual organization and, as a committeeman, should have been representing the whole party instead of one candidate-but mostly because his candidate did so badly. ¶ Lest fidgety Republican campaign...
Educationists Shattuck and Elicker urged principals to write TIME Inc.'s President Roy E. Larsen, also threatening boycott. The N.A.S.S.P. officials added a professional tip on pressure-cooking: "Of course, the force of your letter will be discounted if you indicate that you have been advised to write such a letter." At week's end more than 100 educators and educationists had taken the advice. Among them: Executive Secretary Elicker, who reported amazement "that you should allow such a distorted presentation, definitely inimitable [sic] to American education...