Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Flagg's best-known work of all was a World War I recruiting poster-perhaps the only one in history that actually drove large numbers of young men into wartime recruiting offices. Using his own lean, darkly handsome face as a model, he depicted a stern, black-browed Uncle Sam pointing an inescapable, slacker-accusing finger, demanding: I WANT YOU. The Government printed 4.000.-000 copies, shipped them to every city, town and hamlet in the nation...
...Composer Luigi Cherubini's birth with the first modern performance of his long-forgotten Elisa. The Maggio Musicale will also offer a handful of 20th century works, including Janacek's Jenufa, will feature concerts by Milan's Nuovo Quartette, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Warsaw, Violinist Isaac Stern...
...Incredible!" The President was hurt ("A lot," said an aide), but no one was allowed to know how much. He sat, dignified and stern, with De Gaulle and Macmillan while the three waited for Khrushchev to show up (see FOREIGN NEWS). Although his own prestige was involved in the U-2 issue, there was no thought of degrading concessions once Khrushchev lit into him. Next afternoon, in his two-room suite at the U.S. embassy, the President read the wire-service reports of Khrushchev's wild press conference. "Incredible!" he said as he leafed through the bulletins, "Unbelievable...
Jazz on a Summer's Day. During 85 woolly minutes at the Newport Jazz Festival, first-time Director Bert Stern gives his audience some solid sound, and a way-in view of the way out: Thelonius Monk, Gerry Mulligan and like that...
When he came to Nikita's conduct at the meeting, Ike was stern. Said he: "Mr. Khrushchev was left in no doubt by me that his ultimatum would never be acceptable to the U.S. Mr. Khrushchev brushed aside all arguments of reason . . . The only conclusion that can be drawn from his behavior this morning was that he came all the way from Moscow to Paris with the sole intention of sabotaging this meeting, on which so much of the hopes of the world have rested...