Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about to deliver up Michigan to Robert A. Taft. Thereafter Feikens helped spark the revolt that swung the Michigan delegation to Eisenhower. He won election to the $10,000-a-year job of state chairman after the Eisenhower landslide, was re-elected in February 1955 notwithstanding the Democratic clean sweep of 1954. He has since worked himself ragged trying to rebuild the G.O.P. organization. "In 1954 it was like playing the New York Yankees with a sand-lot ball club," he says. "Now we've got the bare beginnings of a start...
...years, goes far to clear and enhance Pissarro's reputation. He was the most impressionable of the impressionists, a painter who influenced a host of painters from Cezanne to Van Gogh and Gauguin, then had the sensitivity and malleability to be influenced by them in turn. The full sweep of Pissarro's lifetime output, ranging from an early landscape done in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, where he was born in 1830 (into a mixed French-Portuguese-Jewish family), to his self-portrait done the year he died in 1903, leaves little doubt that, experimentation aside, Pissarro...
...running time of about eight hours, cut to five and a half for the live production. This was obviously too long for a movie, and the time had to be further shortened by wholesale cutting to an hour and three quarters. Still, the film manages to capture the grand sweep of the classic tale of revenge, murder and retribution, though many qualities of the original are necessarily lost...
With a great flurry the A.F.L. ousted the racket-ridden International Longshoremen's Association in 1953, then set out to sweep the New York docks with its own substitute, the International Brotherhood of Longshoremen. Twice the I.B.L. exerted full and expensive (more than a million dollars) efforts in bargaining elections, lost out to the entrenched I.L.A...
...bookshops are stocking a Sabatini bargain. In the Shadow of the Guillotine contains three novels with a French Revolution setting: Scaramouche, The Marquis of Carabas, The Lost King. Even people with literary pretensions can admire the expert workmanship. Others will simply enjoy the storytelling, the color, the sweep and energy that were Sabatini's trademarks. Picking up this neat, compact volume, many an old fan will be glad to see him back...