Word: bags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MARCEL DUCHAMP, by Robert Lebel (191 pp.; Grove; $15), is billed as the "first full-scale study" of the Daddy of Dadaists. The scrappy text suggests that the author followed a method once used by Duchamp for writing music-he drew notes and musical markings out of a bag at random. But the volume makes up for the grab-bag text by reproducing almost every known work of Expressionist Cubist-Surrealist Duchamp, from his mustachioed Mona Lisa and famed Nude Descending a Staircase to the catalogue cover he decorated with a foam-rubber breast and the caption: "Please touch...
...breast pocket, is political chief. His pony-tailed brother Raul is military boss, commanding the 35,000-man rebel army that is the regime's principal arm of force and terror, notably for rounding up all suspected oppositionists on a charge of "counterrevolution" (last week's bag: 250 prisoners...
...first cold cereals, built a thriving business in Battle Creek, Mich, before he died in 1914. Later, under President Colby Chester and Chairman E. F. Hutton (who married Post's daughter Marjorie), the company diversified so fast by buying up other companies that the big shopping bag was renamed General Foods. As it continued to grow under Austin Igleheart, who had joined Postum in 1926 when it purchased his family-run company (Swans Down cake flour), and Clarence Francis, the emphasis in the food business moved more and more from manufacturing to marketing. Thus, when Francis moved...
...Becoming a good teacher," said a veteran New York City public-school teacher, "has more in common with the process of becoming a good boxer or a combat soldier [than with medicine]. You do not have a subdued and cooperative patient; you have a mixed bag of restless unknown quantities in one room, no two of whom will react the same way. You get your brains knocked out a few times, and you get blown up several times. If you are a born teacher and not one fabricated by the professors of pedagogy, you become a first-class veteran, able...
With military precision and the help of expanded studies in the humanities, U.S. service academies this year plucked a prize bag of Rhodes scholarships. The impetus: a sharp new drive at West Point and the Air Academy* to plunge bright graduates into the heady whirl of Britain's ancient Oxford University. The Air Academy won its first scholarship, and there were a record five for West Pointt (matched only by Harvard). Recalls one awed civilian competitor, who stepped into the exam ring with them: "They looked like tall glasses of cold milk...