Word: careering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George Venable Allen, 44, one of the ablest of U.S. career diplomats, took on his toughest assignment last week. Fresh from a two-year stint as Ambassador to Iran, he was sworn in as Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs-i.e., chief of U.S. propaganda...
Labor relations work is not easy for the freshly graduated college student to obtain, speakers at last night's career conference in Dunster House explained...
...That career started with years of severe schooling, during which Matisse supported himself by copying old masters in the Louvre. ("One must learn to walk firmly on the ground," he told his own students later, "before one tries the tightrope.") When he married at 23, Matisse was considered a rising young academician. Soon afterward, he ruined his reputation; he willfully destroyed a perfectly adequate still life he had just finished instead of sending it to his dealer. "It did not represent me," explained Matisse. "I count my emancipation from that...
People who regard science with suspicion have always celebrated such familiar, explainable events as "mysteries" or "miracles." Charles Fort, who died in 1932, made a career of it. For 26 years Fort puttered in the British Museum and the New York Public Library, collecting phenomena which "science cannot explain" (he had a special fondness for unusual objects falling from the sky). He insisted that the earth was surrounded by a gelatinous shell, in which the stars were holes. Rains of fish, frogs and "blood" (water containing reddish dust particles) were brought down to earth from the shell by "teleportation...
...Electra of Aeschylus). After killing their mother's lover and making her commit suicide, they are obsessed by their own guilt, and Orin, who is played superbly by Michael Redgrave, commits suicide himself, while Lavinia, played by Rosalind Russell with what is probably the best acting of her career, retires to the Mannon mansion to spend the rest of her life suffering for her ancestors' misdoings. The conflict of the picture is seen complete in Lavinia's mind, for she, first a Puritanical Mannon, becomes more and more like her mother, although she finally rejects her last chance of marriage...