Word: subway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arts, Manhattan's Metropolitan and Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute buy up the best, was a familiar (and faintly angelic) detachment in their expressions: the off-guard pensiveness of girls who think themselves alone and unobserved-dressing and undressing, yawning, idly reading, or waiting for a train or subway...
Raphael reaches his Broadway studio by subway at 9 each morning, bringing with him, stored in his mind, some of the life of Manhattan's streets and of the lonely apartments high above the streets. By the time he catches the uptown subway to return to his wife and daughter at 5:30, the chances are that a little of that same disordered life has been transferred to canvas. "My work is factual," says Soyer. "So much art that's exhibited nowadays has nothing to do with life. I go to see the new painters. I know what...
Notre Dame rooters (a noisy lot, centering around a small nucleus of alumni, widening out to include most of New York's Irish, and eventually embracing whole armies of subway sentimentalists) out-yelled N.Y.U.'s although it was N.Y.U.'s home town. They groaned as one when the Irish fell nine points behind. N.Y.U.'s Coach Howard Cann sent out an order to play slow, safe and cozy...
...Robinson decided to make the great break. He went to New York, where he wrote poetry, worked for a while on a subway construction project, and sometimes nearly starved. Relief did not come until 1905, when Theodore Roosevelt, one of the few American Presidents who took a public interest in poetry, became enthusiastic over Robinson's verse and found him a sinecure, which gave him both a living and free time. But the years of loneliness and doubt had left a scar on Robinson's mind: failure remained his basic theme. Readers of this book may realize some...
Over & over Isacson hammered home the contention that Harry Truman had ducked the Palestine issue; that his civil-rights stand was mostly talk. Isacson wanted price control resumed, rent control continued, the Taft-Hartley Act revoked and subway fares kept at a nickel. And, most pleasing to the Communists, he was dead set against the Marshall Plan...