Word: stems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even seventh graders, according to the teachers' manual, can be brought to understanding that "they share sin with all mankind." Throughout the course of the year they may be brought back again and again to the realization that fear, deceit, stubbornness and disobedience all stem from self-concern and self-will. "Then they will be ready for the knowledge that this is what we mean by 'original...
...Communists and Nenni Socialists bided their time. Their candidate, who led on the first ballot, dropped out. On the third ballot, near midnight, the Socialists threw their 100-odd votes to Gronchi, sending him surging into the lead. All night long, before the fourth ballot, Fanfani tried to stem the rebellion. He got Merzagora to write out a letter withdrawing his candidacy in favor of Einaudi. Then, with Scelba, he went to Gronchi and asked him to withdraw too. Gronchi refused. "You have always believed in force," he told Fanfani. "Now that I am stronger than...
...patron saint of U.S. Congressional buffoons is the junketeer who, on the occasion of a visit to the court of- the Hellenes, inspected Queen Frederika of Greece from stem to stern and raucously proclaimed her "the cutest little Queenie I ever saw." The Congressman and his antics came a few years too soon: today he could play his role before the whir, glare and flash of a dozen cameras. In the harlequinade tumble for television, radio and newspaper publicity, more and more Congressmen have begun to play to the microphone and the lens...
Utamaro (1753-1806) has been called one of the most refined printmakers who ever lived, and damned as a decadent who started Ukiyo-e on its downward course. (The censure may stem from the fact that he spent at least a thousand nights in the Yoshiwara, and that the girls in his designs are impossibly tall and willowy.) Actually Utamaro's work shows as much range as refinement. His first important series of prints was a book of insect studies, and his greatest depicts the wilderness upbringing of Kintaro, the Japanese Hercules. Kintaro Reaching for Chestnut is as healthy...
...offers anything unusual in the way of merit or novelty; it seems almost frightened of anything distinguished. The reason lies rather in a formula professionalism, a kind of glazed mediocrity, a persisting common touch that, here and there, is a touch too common. Silk Stockings is all Main Stem and no flower...