Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russia], the habits of slavery are too deeply implanted." says a Russian in Ivan Turgenev's novel Smoke. "We must have a master in everything . . . This master is mostly a living person, but sometimes a so-called movement gets the upper hand . . . Why and on the strength of what reasons we [Russians] become slaves is a mystery, but such, it seems, is our nature...
...Limb. In Hackensack, N.J., Albert Kuiken, 64, filed a $10,000 damage suit against Theodore H. Mastin Sr., charged him with cutting down a tree while Kuiken was perched in the upper branches...
Beneath this artistic upper crust, there is a varied commercial stew. Among the most popular types: 1) The Parisienne, a snub-nosed, black-eyed girl in a flowery hat. derived from Renoir, but produced with the most success by a commercial artist named Huldah; 2) The Dancer, in a ballet skirt and a misty setting, inspired by Degas and churned out commercially by one Fried Pal, among others; 3) The Paris Street, in cool colors with sharp edges, originated by Utrillo, but perpetuated by a more sober and less talented host of hacks; 4) the dashing watercolor of a horse...
Among many other items of interest in this critical time, the New York Times one day last week carried a story headlined GEESE ARE FOUND IN GROUNDED STATE. It seemed that a party of naturalists had tracked to Bylot Island in the upper reaches of Baffin Bay the Greater Snow Goose, who wanted at that point to be let alone. His zoological middle name is hyperborea, ("from beyond the north wind"), and the reason he wants to get behind the north wind once a year is that then he loses all his feathers at once. It takes him two weeks...
...done up in Gandhi cap and grey cotton waistcoat, his legs wrapped spider-like in white churidhars, India's Jawaharlal Nehru expounded his foreign policy last week before the Upper House of Parliament. "If coexistence is not possible," said he, "then the only alternative is co-destruction." The U.S. proposal for a Southeast Asia Treaty (SEATO) was "likely to change the whole trend towards peace that the Geneva Conference has created . . . Probably in America the crisis of our time is supposed to be Communism v. antiCommunism. The crisis in Asia is colonialism v. anti-colonialism . . . Was the tragic history...