Word: blooms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ting Ling and Chen were apparently among the weeds that popped up under Mao's new policy of letting all flowers bloom. The pruning shears were hard at work last week. For more than two months Radio Peking has been airing a steady rollcall of revolts, rebellions, plots and counter-revolutionary movements. In Fukien province one counter-revolutionary group was said to have created a complete organization including shadow brigades, divisions and an army, worked out detailed plans to rob grain storehouses and assassinate government officials...
...clear enough and one that has troubled the thoughts of many another Briton now recovered from the first, fine rapture of enjoying a pretty, well-mannered new Queen: What and where are a monarch's responsibilities in a democratic world? "When the Queen," wrote Altrincham, "has lost the bloom of youth, her reputation will depend far more than it does now upon her personality. She will have to say things which people can remember, and do things on her own initiative which will make people sit up and take notice. As yet there is little sign that such...
...business like the weather, and the weather affects every business differently. Snow sells cough drops but slows construction; a wet spring makes farmers buy fungicide by the carload but gives air-conditioner manufacturers the shudders; at the first frost orchids and oranges perish but antifreeze and ski-wax sales bloom again. Yet only a few businessmen can depend on the U.S. Weather Bureau's generalized daily reports for the information they need. To get the precise, specially tailored reports they want, more and more companies are turning to private weathermen, who tell them what the weather will...
...quality of the paintings are two canvases from the European exhibit-Tobey's placid, cotton-soft Fountains of Europe and Callahan's turbulent, semi-semi-objective Fiery Night (see color page). The sculpture is no less recherche. Not untypical are Lipton's exotic Night Bloom, with its nickel-silver-on-steel petals closing with tropical luxuriance, and Hare's abstract bronze. Bush of Elephants, with its distorted suggestion of tusks and elephants' ears...
...almost paralleled Van Gogh's artistic progress. The catalyst that changed Mondrian was his discovery of cubism. (He simplified not only his style but also his name-from Mondriaan.) While he had previously drawn trees that were obviously trees, he now produced the segmented Apple Tree in Bloom (see color page), a lyric, rhythmic design of orchestrated nuances and subtle harmonies. Even more dramatic evidence of his progression lies in his rare self-portraits: in 1900 he saw himself as a religion-seeker, with deep, glowing eyes (a pose that later so distressed him that he threatened to destroy...