Word: america
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vienna-born, Koerner came to the U.S. in 1939, lives in a Victorian gingerbread-style house in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill section. His new pictures deal, often harshly and always provocatively, with the basic human condition, especially in America. As pictures, they have beauty, but their content is seldom beautiful. "America's beauty," Koerner jauntily explains, "is in its ugliness...
...wealth of sentiment, there is little sentimental about Koerner, and the America he pictures in kaleidoscopic fashion is more disturbing, all in all, than delightful. Future generations may well debate how much of this disturbing quality was in the man and how much in the nation...
...Muscle. In Louisville, Robeit Snawder filed suit for $45,248 damages, claimed that a back injury from an auto accident kept him from competing in the "Mr. America" contest and winning the crown...
Archbishop Iakovos, head of the Greek Orthodox Church of North and South America, lined up with the Roman Catholics. As he sees it, the argument in favor of birth control is based on the secular notion that society "must forever banish from the face of the earth hunger, misfortune, juvenile crime, social revolution and wars-since all these are a consequence of overpopulation." Said the archbishop: "This argument may be correct, but it is entirely negative." Childbirth, he added, is a "duty binding on all-not to avoid children, but to care for them in the nurture and admonition...
Jumbo died in 1910, and the golden age of heiresses and coronets went with him. The same year, Mary Pickford became America's sweetheart. As Author Eliot sees it, the events were symbolically linked. The age of society, such as it was, had ended, and the U.S. entered the age of celebrities, such as they...