Word: spotlighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...singled out Radcliffe College for attack. The vituperative pen of a Greater Boston preacher managed to magnify the serving of sherry at a meeting of the Radcliffe Auxiliary into a drunken carousal; but investigation shows two important facts were overlooked in making these accusations, facts which dim the lurid spotlight thrown on an innocent gathering...
...audience was William Green, President of the A. F. of L.; conspicuously absent was John L. Lewis, who is at outs with I. L. G. W. U.'s Dubinsky. During the song One Big Union for Two, which is propaganda for the C. I. O., Green stole the spotlight from the actors, remained composed but looked uncomfortable...
...Harvard that a popular English instructor who resigned about a year ago desires to return. If this is true, and if the University refuses to accept him, it will be one more example of letting wheat slip through the chaff. Because some day in the future the world may spotlight this man and Harvard try to persuade him to join the flock; then one of its worst attitudes will simply be perpetuated...
Switching the spotlight to Winthrop discloses the Faithful Fourteen, wasting their fragrance on the desert air. This...
Into the artistic spotlight which remains jumpily fixed on Picasso's generation a few younger Frenchmen have lately popped. Last week one of these was introduced to the U. S. by Manhattan Dealer Julien Levy, whose eye is on Paris like a hawk's. The debutant was Rene Pierre Tal-Coät, a shy, husky, onetime Breton sailor, now 32, who has lived for ten years in one sixth-floor room at 5 Rue 'de Plaisance, teaching himself how to paint. In probably the first period of French history when a painter could win repute without...