Word: woven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million inhabitants are immigrants or the children of immigrants. New York City alone has more Irish than Dublin, more Italians than Rome, more Jews than Israel, more Puerto Ricans than San Juan. From the tangled threads of the state's 75 national and racial groups is woven the most intricate political tapestry in U.S. history...
...visitors perch quietly on steel folding chairs on the vast graveled terrace, listening to the piquant yet noble strains of an orchestral prelude, the work of Jacques Ibert, distinguished French composer (Ports of Call) and former manager of the Paris Opéra. "Here intrigues are woven and romance prevails," proclaims a voice which seems to come from the heart of the chateau itself (it is the recorded voice of Charles Boyer, via 28 loudspeakers, speaking a text by André Maurois). "Here all France is assembled; not only the court, but also Racine, Boileau, Molière [and] ambassadors...
Just before Sarnoff took over as president. NBC had no TV shows in the top ten Trendex ratings, while CBS had nine. Sarnoff was determined to cut away at the TV fabric Weaver had woven, go after more so-called "bread-and-butter" programs. This month NBC has only two (sixth place and a tie for tenth) shows in the top ten. But TV ratings aside, rival network officials concede that Bob Sarnoff is a better administrator than Weaver, who had a penchant for endless interoffice memos. During Sarnoff's first six months in office...
Pritchett criticism resembles an elaborately woven square of cloth which, held up at one end, hangs together all of a piece. The Pritchett short story is just the opposite. It exists (as modern life does, in Pritchett's view) "in fragments rather than as solid mass," and exults in bursts of fire, sharp changes of tempo, explosions of mood. And it is usually extremely cheerful, regardless of what it is about-as if the characters, like their author, were glad to escape from the stiffer world of Pritchett criticism...
...which he bestows diamond bracelets and gold Faberge cigarette boxes on the beautiful and highborn women (e.g., the Duchess of Kent) who christen his ships, repartee in the royal enclosure at Ascot, champagne flowing like home brut in the nightclubs of London and Paris. Unlike most legends, it is woven from whole fact...