Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...German art at its best, from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, has been its strong design and sure draftsmanship. Nowhere is this more evident than in the long history of great German drawings. Now, for the first time, U.S. gallerygoers have a chance to judge the full sweep of the Germans' monumental achievement. The first full-scale exhibition of six centuries of German drawing ever put together in one show opened this week in Washington's National Gallery, first stop in a cross-country tour of four major U.S. cities. To show the whole range...
...career soldier, Lonardi naturally leaned heavily on old and trusted friends for his administrative appointments. He made a clean sweep of scores of Peronista governors and mayors; so many senior military men were called on for temporary service in these jobs that Lonardi found himself short of qualified division and regimental commanders. His cabinet, however, was mainly civilian, and Argentines seemed to think it serious and competent...
Brownie Reid has other troubles besides the Early Bird. In his eagerness to sweep out the cobwebs from the paper (TIME, April 18), he has also swept out much of the paper's oldtime esprit de corps. "In the past year," said one Trib veteran, "there has been complete unrest in the city room." The Trib has been losing many of its top staffers and promising younger newsmen. City Editor Fendall Yerxa quit, to be replaced (TIME, May 30) by hard-boiled Luke Carroll, onetime Trib Chicago correspondent. Close to a dozen other staffers, including John...
...Shake, Rattle n Roll!" To a few these words mean nothing. But for ten million American teen-agers they are an invitation to the biggest dance craze to sweep the nation since the jitterbug: Rock n Roll. Though its roots are deep in the Rhythm and Blues of the South, Rock n Roll, with its "big beat," is an entirely new kind of music...
British Novelist Alec Waugh, after writing for years in the shadow of his younger brother Evelyn, at last tasted fame and fortune. His new novel, Island in the Sun, to be published in January, has made an across-the-board clean sweep of U.S. literary jackpots: 1) the Ladies' Home Journal is serializing it; 2) the Literary Guild has chosen it; 3) the Reader's Digest Book Club will digest it; and 20th Century-Fox will film...