Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since they lived in a rainy region where only the toughest relics avoid disintegration, almost nothing would be known about the Olmecs if it had not been for their curious custom of carving in jade and hard stone and burying the carvings. To judge by their figurines, they bound their babies' heads to make them abnormally highbrowed. They probably worshiped a jaguar god, or at least they carved fierce stone images of beasts half man, half jaguar. They also carved monstrous human heads nine feet high with petulant baby faces. They floored their ceremonial rooms with clay tinted...
...dealing with Algeria, the Eisenhower Administration has tried to avoid offending either the Asian-African nations, which are fervently on the side of the rebels, or France, bitterly fighting to keep a hold in her most prized overseas territory. In the United Nations the U.S. has gone along with France's claim that the crisis is a French internal problem...
...Paradoxically Khrushchev took full power by denouncing "the personality cult" of Stalinists who (he said) wanted to bring back the hated tyranny; yet it was he who was setting up a one-man dictatorship. Perhaps Khrushchev hoped to avoid a return to the unprofitable nightmare of Stalinist horror. Yet in the deadly Soviet game of power, victory has its own momentum and defeat its own awful logic. The "lose and live" policy, which lasted while the forces of power were in uneasy equilibrium, might not survive now that Khrushchev is in control. The increasing mentions of the "Leningrad Case...
...pitch in Loving You is that Deke, wide-eyed and unspoiled, is victimized by a predatory lady pressagent (Lizabeth Scott) and a scheming bandleader (Wendell Corey). But the harder the venal two try to cheapen and exploit this naive lad, the richer he gets. He just can't avoid...
...things on a big scale. A brawny six-footer who wears a full-blown, eight-inch beard, he can still, at 48, lift a 500-Ib. weight off the floor. His name itself (approximate pronunciation: Kor-chak Jule-fcttjf-ski) is so big a mouthful that even old friends avoid using it so they won't mispronounce it. But the biggest thing about Ziolkowski is his ambition. It is to carve the most mountainous piece of man-made sculpture in recorded history. He is working on a piece of material that is to the measure of his ambition...