Word: stevenses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sweeney came to Harvard in 1940 to work with I.A. Richards on the Committee on Communications--using Richard's "Basic English" to prepare simplifications of the Bill of Rights and immigration documents. Curator of the Poetry Room since 1943 and selection specialist for Widener since 1946, Sweeney controls the purchase...
Opinions & Views: Long a leader of the left wing of the Christian Democrats, Gronchi was a leading and early advocate of the "opening to the left." But he has vigorously disowned a Christian Science Monitor story by Correspondent Edmund Stevens (TIME, Feb. 13), which quoted him as in effect favoring...
The Mother of Us All is likened by its creators to a pageant of the passing 19th century. Across the stage in its course pass Daniel Webster, Andrew Johnson, Thaddeus Stevens, Anthony Comstock, Lillian Russell and Ulysses S. Grant. "The costumes," the authors specify, "should sharply exemplify regions, decades, and...
Up from Cornerstones. In Gronchi's nine months in office, Stevens noted as he entered Quirinale Palace between gleaming rows of grenadier guards, Gronchi has brought back much of the pomp and ceremony that went out with King Umberto II in 1946. In that brief time, Giovanni Gronchi has...
Aim at the People. No matter what they performed, it would be hard to resist a show that included Pianist Artur Rubinstein, Violinist Isaac Stern, Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, and such vocalists as Marian Anderson, Renata Tebaldi, Zinka Milanov, Risë Stevens, Blanche Thebom, Roberta Peters, Mildred Miller. Jan Peerce, Jussi...