Word: bonde
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...early '50s, some of his paintings were moving away from the strict line-and-rectangle grid. Black-White Duet with Red, 1953 (see cut), loosens the bond. Instead of Mondrian's delicately balanced, off-center compositions, a kind of symmetry prevails: the skewed, hefty profiles of black and white fit together like a Yin-Yang symbol as revised by a locksmith. "I liked what Mondrian had discovered - the interchangeability of form and space," Smith recalls. "But I wanted to apply that to free form...
...that at one point White House aides briefly entertained "the devil theory" to explain the gap. They wondered whether "some sinister force," an unexplained outside source of energy, had been applied to the tape. But Haig offered no suggestion as to just what he might mean by this James Bond or science-fiction scenario. He clearly continued the White House effort to put the responsibility on Rose Mary Woods...
Another vital change is the substitution of Simon's driving administrative approach for the slow, cautious methods of his predecessor as energy czar, former Colorado Governor John A. Love. On Wall Street, Simon throve as a bond trader who regularly had to make quick decisions on deals involving many millions of dollars, with painful penalties for failure. A long-hours man who regularly lunches at his desk (on enormous delicatessen sandwiches), Simon does not believe in large formal meetings that seek to form a consensus among those attending. He prefers to get information and advice from close aides...
...There are those who claim that the fictional 007 became a worldwide glandular and intelligence hero because John Kennedy said that he was a James Bond fan. It is established history that after Lyndon Johnson had the Fort Worth barbecue wizard Walter Jetton at the White House, Jetton's vans, filled with succulent ribs, were summoned by hostesses all across the land...
Simon's grasp of the seriousness of the problem is the more surprising since he had no special background in the oil business when he entered the Government. He was then known on Wall Street as a bond trader who had an uncanny sense of when to buy and sell. Simon, a New Jerseyan, started his career as a brokerage-house trainee in 1952, a year after graduating from Lafayette College. By the time President Nixon tapped him for the Treasury in December 1972, he had become a senior partner of Salomon Brothers, one of the nation...