Word: stripes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ALTHOUGH he spent most of his life in Germany, Lyonel Feininger framed and shaped his art in America. The son of a German concert violinist, Feininger was born and brought up in Manhattan. Among his earliest memories was that of seeing stripe-suited prisoners marching in lock step on Blackwells (now Welfare Island. "This made a wretched impression on me." he recalled. "I took to drawing ghosts for a while, and this may have laid the foundation for my fantastic figures and caricatures." When he was 16, Feininger went to Europe to study music. Soon he switched...
...they accuse me of wanting to destroy." But his mission ruled out his taking any particular party's side. "This impartiality obliges me to insist that my name, even in the form of an adjective, not be utilized by any group or candidate." Nevertheless, politicians of almost every stripe tumbled all over themselves to win, if not his name, at least some sort of unofficial blessing. "Gaullism," said Georges Bidault wryly, "is a cathedral, open to all, with only dogs, assassins and the plague excluded...
...Moslems of every political stripe must be free to run for office, excepting only active members of the rebel F.L.N. with criminal charges against them. Even candidates who favor outright Algerian independence must be allowed...
Play to Win. Venturi, who has won $60,000 in just 21 months as a professional, is the best bet of all for the future. A gritty perfectionist of the Hogan stripe, he practices endless hours to correct his flaws. The first time that he finished out of the money, Ken went back to his hotel, practice-putted in his room for four hours, came back with twelve straight rounds under 69, won two tournaments. "There are basically two kinds of players," he says, "those who play to win and those who play to finish in the money...
Friday Club. The new zaibatsu are of a different stripe than their prewar predecessors. Single families, or single firms no longer control the great combines. The zaibatsu depend for leadership on the financiers of their powerful banks, have set up central liaison councils with euphemistic names designed to attract as little attention as possible. Mitsubishi's "Friday Club," presided over by blunt, crop-haired Mitsubishi Trading President Katsujiro Takagaki, 66, is simply a bimonthly meeting, of 22 Mitsubishi company presidents, who continue the cementing process by arranging loans and raising funds for brother companies...