Word: stage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over the years evolved his own distinctive style, winning fame as a painter of biting social comment, somewhere between caricature and fantasy. His work has taken many forms. During World War II, he drew posters for the U.S. Office of War Information. He has also done murals and stage sets. In 1956-57, exercising a kind of poetic license, he lectured on art as Charles Eliot Norton professor of poetry at Harvard. Many of Ben Shahn's pictures hang in major museums in the U.S. and abroad...
Fuddle Factory. "There are bound to be some casualties in any war," says Shriver. His own war is still in its experimental stage, too young to be judged an overall failure or a probable success. In any case, Shriver has no doubts that it is worth fighting. Disturbed by the criticism that has plagued him from the first, Shriver confided during a recent audience with the Pope: "Some people are quoting the Bible against us in the poverty war, saying, The poor always ye have with you.' " Did His Holiness know an effective rejoinder to that? He did indeed...
...month in his palace in Port-au-Prince. "It is urgent," he said, "for every Haitian-wherever he is-to come home and work with the President and Cabinet and with every foreign investor that Haiti needs for its development. The Haitian soil belongs to every Haitian." The "explosive stage" of his revolution was over, Papa Doc promised, and now Haiti was entering the more humane "administrative stage...
...biggest thing there since Scotch. His records are out selling Charles Aznavour, Yves Montand and Johnny Hallyday combined. Wherever he goes, the kids-the girls, especially - engulf him. At Paris' Olympia Music Hall, it took 35 flics to keep back the girls, who retaliated by littering the stage with their panties. "Never in French show business," marvels Maurice Chevalier, who ought to know, "has an artist reached the top so fast." It may be carrying art too far to call Antoine an artist, but there is no doubt that...
...ICBM defense will be limited in purpose to preventing catastrophic aggression by the "Nth nation." It should substantiate its position by seeking further disarmament agreements with the USSR. The war in Vietnam will probably preclude such agreements at the present, but a resolution of that conflict should set the stage for successful discussions. The limited Nike-X system will contribute substantially to our military position, so long as the risk of a new and more lethal US-Soviet arms race is recognized and avoided...