Word: suggesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Edgar Hoover for help. Finally, Case concluded there was nothing to the story. Now recovered from her illness, Adelaide recalls "that she met with a small group of people . . . several times a month to discuss political issues of the -wartime period. There is nothing that she told me to suggest that this had been anything more than a completely open association . . . which ended years...
Artist Escher once made naturalistic prints in Italy. Says he: "In Italy nature is so rich one must do nature. But in the north, in Holland, nature doesn't suggest anything to me, and so I have to work from imagination. It was lucky for me that I left Italy-but to do what I have done since, I had to have all that nature first." Even in his Italian days, however, Escher had a passion for patterns. Then the abstract mosaics in Spain's Alhambra suggested to him the possibility of combining tight, flat patterns with illusions...
...best method for ending the trouble of overproduction was suggested by Agriculture's Poultry Division Director W. D. Termohlen at Purdue University's annual Broiler Day meeting. Said he: "I would like to suggest to you broiler growers that this would be a good time to take a . . . vacation. The expenses . . . would probably be no more than what it would cost you to raise your next batch of broilers . . . we are heading for a long period of rough times, certainly through December...
...summary can suggest Toynbee's range. But his study of renaissances, those recurring attempts of civilizations to recapture their lost youth, is a good example. Charlemagne tried to snatch back features of Hellenism, and Timur Lenk tried to raise the ghost of the Cairene 'Abbasid Caliphate, neither with success. In literature, 15th century Humanism tried to revive the writing of Latin verse only to see the "vulgar" and more virile Western literature sweep Europe. Toynbee includes the Crusades among the "renaissances" that failed, a deplorable attempt to reach "religious goals by military short cuts." In effect, Toynbee...
...First is General Lee's Grand March, a frothy two-step that might have come from Donizetti's Daughter of the Regiment. Next come wistful and militant soldiers' songs, e.g., Bonnie Blue Flag and Somebody's Darling. Others are drenched with sentiment; still others suggest the progressive bitterness of the occupation...