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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Department morale. He could and did prove himself a lawyer first and a politician second. He could and did streamline the department machinery. Without these achievements he could not have written his record. But the achievements in method were not enough. The job of Attorney General demands a special sort of courage. It requires a man willing to walk a lonely road in applying the laws in such vital fields as security, antitrust and civil rights, the laws that reach dramatically into the very blood and muscle of the nation...
...singer, Sands mixes hoot and hush, moo and moon eyes. He is a sort of cleaned-up Presley. He enunciates better and grinds less, is less vulgar in sound and manner, also less able to turn on the excitement that Presley can frequently generate. But Tommy is doing fine without wriggling up to Elvis' loftier heights. In the three months since the Kraft show, Sands has taken the bathos treatment on This Is Your Life, sung on five network shows, screen-tested for a role in Marjorie Morningstar. He gets about 2,000 fan letters a day, has pulled...
...failure of contemporary art, especially public sculpture--for most sculpture has always been public--to find especial satisfaction and success in depicting the human form points toward a loss of feeling for the plastics of human beauty. What seems to intrigue us often is a sort of peeping-tom attitude, that seems to offer delight in a sort of pseudo-wickedness, yet is extremely embarrassed by acknowledgement of the physical facts. Clark refreshingly does not share this attitude nor disparage the sensual aspects of the art of the nude. "No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator...
...removed, austere, vengeful Apollo, and the terrible tragic grandeur of Christ Crucified both find their expression in the nude form. The nude has the strength of both immediacy and severe truth--man as he really is. And as in tragedy, this essential humanness makes him essentially divine, the sort of marvelous synthesis of the flesh and spirit that gave rise to the Palatine Anthology anecdote about Praxiteles' Aphrodite," Aphrodite said, "Where did Praxiteles see me naked...
There is the possibility that unfavorable weather may postpone this race until Sunday. Crimson coach Joe Brown commented on this factor: "If we have the same high winds that we have had for the past two weeks, I hope we can postpone the race, as this sort of weather often ruins a race rowed over the Henley distance...