Word: sup
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...painters the fundamental tech iques and principles of their craft. Greenshields, who paints seashore scenes in his spare time, deplores the fact that few young artists today get enough basic training. He blames "the iconoclasm and unbridled license of a rapidly growing and articulate group of artists and their sup porters who manifest a positive obsession to distort and, where possible, to dispense with all natural forms." Greenshields' huffing and puffing will never blow down the mansion of modern art, for it is no house of cards. But when artists say, as did Montreal Painter Goodridge Roberts, that Greenshields...
...church has the right to teach these certain acts are wrong, but has no right to prohibit them." This view is connected with the belief of many leading Galveston businessmen that sin is good for business; that the tourist trade would fall off if gambling and prostitution were sup pressed...
...Algiers post outranks most Cabinet portfolios in prestige and almost everything else in priority. Soustelle's appointment promises a firm hand at a critical moment in France's relations with North Africa. A cold, intelligent member of a French Calvinist family, Soustelle entered the famed Ecole Normale Supérieure at 17, graduated at 20. An anthropologist and married to an anthropologist, he voyaged to Mexico and South America, wrote a series of outstanding books on the Inca and Aztec cultures. Politically on the left, he joined De Gaulle in London shortly after the fall of France. Later...
Ribicoff to a stately inauguration at the Capitol in Hartford, climaxed by a ball (3,000 paying guests at $25 a couple) with a grand march and a midnight sup per. Thus will Abe Ribicoff realize the American dream that, related in an emotional TV campaign speech ("That any boy could aspire to any position . . . and reach any heights"), helped to beat Republican John Lodge...
...powers can be rallied together, they must first be persuaded to sit down together. The neutralists are by definition unwilling to join a bloc. Nehru does not want to become a partner with Chiang Kai-shek or Syngman Rhee, and the feeling is mutual. Rhee is not keen to sup with the Japanese; neither are the Australians. The U.S. is not anxious to bind itself to defend precarious and far-off regimes on Asia's southern shores. France wants to include Indo-China in the area protected by the alliance; Britain says it is already too late...