Word: beckon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...projects beckon. The city of Detroit has asked him how to give sculptural shape to 60 million cubic yards of earth excavated in the construction of new underpasses and highway cut-throughs. "Imagine it, a pile of earth two miles long, a hundred yards wide, and five stories tall!" he says, eyes glittering. At the other end of the weight scale, he is also starting new works in aluminum and balsa wood. "Why not?" he asks. "Anything can be sculpture, even air in balloons. The form is the main thing...
...colors were almost always beautiful and bright, hence the subtlety of their effect: he pictured nightmares in the sunshine, petal-hued evils, well-scrubbed and enameled enigmas. His art gives vividly the same confusing message that he once put into words. "Life," Salemme wrote, "has infinite doors to beckon with, and each day reveals new doors, and men continue to pass through new doors, and we live in an age when men are no longer content with discovering new doors, but have begun to close them and erect them around themselves. But there is no escape from the door that...
...Specifics. In the bitter aftermath of Budapest, world Communism desperately needs a new and recognizable success-and it is in the Middle East that such a success seems to beckon. Therefore, said Ike, spelling out the way U.S. collective-security planning had helped in Western Europe, Greece, Turkey and the Far East, "it is now essential that the U.S. should manifest through joint action of the President and the Congress our determination to assist those nations of the Mideast area which may desire that assistance." That was why he had come before them to request stand-by congressional authority...
Murder used to be all a mystery novelist needed to get on with his story. The new whodunits stick to that main tent at traction, but beckon the jaded customers with such lurid little sideshows as sadism, pandering, homosexuality, counterfeiting, prostitution, adultery and grave-robbing...
...haunted by a stimulating worry. They feared-or hoped-that their Dry Ice and silver iodide might do more than wring the water out of local masses of susceptible clouds. Rainmaking might possibly start meteorological chain reactions, conjure up violent storms, bring blizzards whistling down from Canada, or even beckon hurricanes off the open sea. This possibility had a military angle: timely cloud-seeding from a safe distance might mess up the weather of an enemy country. Last week Meteorologist Dr. Jerome Spar of New York University laid this interesting ghost, or at least cut it down considerably, by reporting...