Word: yourselfing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"Futile" Talk. When Edward P. Morgan of the American Broadcasting Co. later went back to the budget area, the President seized the opportunity. "I am afraid you have opened up yourself for a little speech," he said. "This budget was not only made carefully, it was made intelligently. [It is...
The year was 1936, and Jimmy Hines was riding piggyback on political success. As Tammany Hall's leader of the slum-bound Eleventh Assembly District on the city's uptown west side, charged with guarding and delivering the district's Democratic vote, Hines had won the acclaim...
In the subject called "language arts," high-school students might spend time "reading messages on movie and television screens to check their accuracy and relevancy" and "reading invitations, greeting cards." They can also master "using sign language" so they can interpret "directions indicated by hand or head signals," "the sign...
A Need to Dream. In A Touch of the Poet, O'Neill explores the theme he used in The Iceman Cometh-a man needs to dream-but he laces the bitter, dialectic dialogue between Melody and his family with rollicking humor and blazing theatrics. Melody keeps a thoroughbred mare...
"You Are a Traitor." The break between Gauguin and Bernard came when Gauguin proclaimed himself, in Bernard's words, "the chief of the symbolist school in painting," and Bernard felt that he had been betrayed. Years after the event Bernard recalled that his indignant sister tackled Gauguin in the...