Word: chimeras
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Something New. On questions even remotely connected with the fading chimera of colonialism, these disparate groupings invariably vote together in the U.N. But on major noncolonial issues, such as Hungary, Tibet and the reunification of Korea, they almost always split. In the annual hassle over admission of Red China to the U.N., the Afro-Asians in the past two General Assembly sessions have divided three ways: 13 or 14 nations for admission, eleven opposed and four abstaining...
Breaking Ranks. As Freud's fame grew and his basic ideas came to be ever more widely accepted, he collected some minor honors, but time and again influential friends failed to get him the Nobel Prize, and he soon urged them to stop chasing "the Nobel chimera." He remained fanatically convinced that he had discovered absolute truths, and excoriated the defectors from his ranks...
...ancients, a chimera was a fabulous monster with a lion's head, a serpent's tail and often an extra head in the middle of its back. To the botanist, it means a plant combining growths of differing genetic makeup-usually the result of grafting. Now British medical scientists are discovering human chimeras, in which one person has some of the body cells of another, invariably a twin...
Rome's Alberto Burri even managed to be pleasantly shocking. His "pictures" consisted chiefly of ripped, patched and pasted burlap. Sculptor Mirko (last name, Basaldella) exhibited four metal abstractions in four separate styles, each startlingly successful. His Chimera has the still aliveness of an ancient Chinese bronze; his Architectonic Element is a single sheet of brass cut and bent to take the light as elaborately as a great scarred cliff...
...year's hopes have gone into pleading EDC's case before the Parliaments of Europe, yet in mid-1953, nearly three years after Pleven's proposal, West German rearmament is still a chimera. On both sides of the Atlantic, suspicion is hardening into the conviction that EDC 1) will not be ratified this year, and 2) may never be ratified...