Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Admire. In the beginning, when Nasser's Free Officers overthrew corrupt and fat King Farouk, and shortly thereafter displaced Mohammed Naguib, their pipe-smoking front man, Nasser, an assistant postmaster's son and professional soldier, seemed a bright hope for a new Egypt. His smile was disarming; he confessed he knew little about running a country, but he was a plain man, plainly honest, eager to end the effete and selfish rule of the pashas. Fighting in the losing Palestine war he became convinced that his country's real problem was not Israel but the poverty...
Playhouse 90 (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., CBS). Invitation to a Gunfighter, with Hugh ("Wyatt Earp") O'Brien as a Civil War soldier who comes home to find his property confiscated...
...technical thrashing and rehashing that bedevil Manhattan painters. His subjects range from such imaginary portraits as King Gustave of Sweden Tatting to East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry Disembarking from H.M.S. Cressy , the fourth in a series of watercolors which sprang from the war games that Parker, a lead-soldier enthusiast, played until recently on the mudflat at suburban Mamaroneck, N.Y. Parker's drenched watercolors. done on rolls of plain shelf paper, now appear in the collections of both the Whitney and the Museum of Modern...
...Hess, an Ohio parson (Disciples of Christ) who in real life flew 62 missions as a fighter pilot in World War II, then rejoined the Air Force when the Korean war broke out, and was ticketed to train the new-fledged ROK air force. The colonel found that his soldier's duty still left him enough time to satisfy his Christian conscience-by founding a home for war orphans and setting up an airlift that carried about a thousand of them...
...December 1946 Dior retired to the home of a frieod in. Fontainebleau, spent 15 days in heavy thought, and emerged with the sketches that formed the basis for the New Look. He explains: "We were leaving a period of war, of uniforms, of soldier-women with shoulders like boxers. I turned them into flowers, with soft shoulders, blooming bosoms, waists slim as vine stems, and skirts opening up like blossoms." More informally, he has admitted that the New Look was based on a glimpse "of the heaving hipline of a female Paris fishmonger...