Word: brush
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...overall effect is sympathetic, not showy. Copley had figured out how to paint what he saw, and what he saw was not merely a subject for his brush but a real human being...
...poker face is the regular appearance of the Soviet bosses at parties where vodka flows freely, and Khrushchev and Bulganin make a production of slapping correspondents on the back, playfully rumpling their hair. Often as not, when MVD guards try to keep correspondents at a distance, Bulganin or Khrushchev brush the guards aside, booming: "Let the correspondents in. They're our friends." What with cocktails and confusion, B. & K. are sometimes misunderstood and misquoted. For this reason resident correspondents repeatedly urge Khrushchev to hold press conferences instead of parties. But though the "Krush-ers" blames the trouble on "those...
...Peace. Some U.S. military leaders, especially in Army circles, argue that wars would then be conducted with "conventional" weapons in the style and on the scale of World War II. Others contend that there would be open season on brush wars of Korea's size and shape, with limited use of the tactical atomic bomb. Pundit Walter Lippmann suggests that guerrilla warfare might become the only thinkable type of conflict. Another possibility: since no nation could be expected to submit to ultimate defeat through the attrition of a series of limited wars, the tendency would be for such wars...
Painters' Painter. Ironically, the basic elements of Rembrandt's painting-his superb brush stroke and bold handling of color, his insistence on psychological insight, his dramatic use of light and shadow-long kept him in eclipse. Though in his own day Velasquez thought nothing of borrowing a pose from Rembrandt's Negress Lying Down (he used it for his own Venus), Rembrandt's reputation became primarily the custody of painters in later generations. In their hands, Rembrandt's work has become one of the richest lodes in Western...
...young labor leader named Phil Murray. Asked McDonald: "Who is Phil Murray?" Even when he found out, he was more taken by the salary−$225 a month, three times his current earnings. Through a friend who knew Murray, David set up a job interview, hurried home to brush up on his shorthand. His mother read articles out of a newspaper; David, sitting beside her in the parlor, took them down...