Word: ascent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second ascent took longer. Seventeen months ago she became TIME's business manager, the first woman to hold that post. Her assignment? "It seems very simple," says Mrs. Werner. "If it has anything to do with numbers, I'm involved. But the challenge of the job is in its complications. Journalism is not an orderly private enterprise. It is a blessedly unpredictable undertaking with great responsibility to the public. Arranging the resources to ensure the coverage that the editors want is where a lot of the fun comes...
...trials represent an attempt by Soviet officials to stem a rising Jewish nationalism. Israel has not exactly discouraged the nationalistic upsurge, since it looks to Russia, with its 3.5 million mostly skilled and educated Jews, as one of the last remaining sources of a sorely needed aliyah-literally, ascent-or wave of immigrants. The Soviets take the position that none of their citizens may depart, and Jews should be no exception...
...smalltown miracle, and 1965's Do I Hear a Waltz? (with music by Richard Rodgers) failed to pay box-office dividends. The rest of the time has been a steady climb, built on internal verse, infernal verse, trip-hammer rhyme schemes and time schemes, sublime schemes, which began their ascent at about the time South Pacific dominated Broadway...
...height and several tons in weight? The prosaic answer is that he has an assistant, hoists and a crane; but the preservation of Liberman's peculiar touch on such a scale is impressive. Where, for instance, did he get the great squashed cylinder that went into Ascent, 1970 (opposite)! "Well," says Liberman in the tone of a watercolorist explaining a wash, "we got two bulldozers and ran the boiler against a tree until it looked right." And if it had looked wrong? "Then another boiler, I suppose...
...spread wings. With its vertical masts and calm progression of red, sail-like forms, Odyssey, one of the monumental sculptures at Hammarskjold Plaza, suggests an archaic flotilla dipping through the Aegean. Sometimes a sculpture will work not as an object but as a kinetic metaphor of force. Ascent includes a blade of red steel that surges from the ground and appears to crush a cylinder until it is halted and returned to balance by the serene oblong that blocks its path. Even in the most abstract of Liberman's new works like Above, 1970, there is a buoyancy that...