Word: tableau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...emotional impetus given the Democratic Party in the bloodless revolution of 1932 certainly appeared to have spent itself in Pennsylvania. "It is time," observed the New York Times, "for the two-party system to reassert itself . . . and nobody can know better than Mr. Roosevelt that the stand-together-brothers tableau is about over...
...tableau was not marred by the first results of a Literary Digest poll asking 15,000,000 1932 voters: "Do you approve on the whole the acts and policies of Roosevelt's first year?" Sixty-six percent of the 45,000 balloters (from New York, New Jersey & Pennsylvania) said Yes, whereas only 57% of the total Digest's straw voters had favored Roosevelt in the 1932 poll. Forty-one percent of the Digest balloters who had chosen Hoover two years ago now favored the President's policies...
...untenable. But all are entitled to equal rights, with attainments limited only by their own inherent qualities. It is highly unfair to judge individuals on a facial or group basis of any kind; individuals should be judged as individuals on their own merits. Those Negro students presented a significant tableau as they stood before a picture of Lincoln signing the emancipation proclamation, just after Congress had denied them the rights of American citizens...
Dramatically as in an Italian opera a beam from an emergency floodlight suddenly lit the tableau. The emergency dynamos were working...
...quantity of the material is even more surprising than the content. An evening or so spent reading this book is far more entertaining and absorbing than a movie. It does, in fact, give the impression of a colossal comedy (or better tragedy) of errors as this animated tableau is unwound before the reader's eyes...