Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This year, for the second time, the editors chose a modern religious painting for the cover. The first, in 1938, was French-born Jean Chariot's Nativity. On this week's cover is The Gift by Fred Meyer, a young art teacher of Rochester, N.Y. who, like the other artists represented in the accompanying two color pages, has been increasingly concerned with religious...
...Created a supreme Office of Defense Mobilization and chose as its boss-answerable only to the President-Charles E. Wilson, president of General Electric and one of the world's top industrialists. In doing so, Harry Truman seemed to be abandoning his prized, tidy plan for operating mobilization through the old-line Cabinet departments (TIME...
...them wore gray flannel suits, one wore gray flannel pants and a sport coat, and one wore gray flannel pants and a raincoat. They chose these garments, they said, so they would look as though they belonged in Eliot House. Three of the four smoked pipes...
...year's most popular book, fiction or nonfiction, was a fat, slick novel about a young priest's spectacular rise in the Roman Catholic hierarchy. Commonplace, often dull, Henry Morton Robinson's The Cardinal nevertheless found nearly 600,000 customers, of whom about three-fourths chose the paper-covered edition...
...appointed juries were on the conservative side, a fact which had led 28 advance-guard abstractionists to boycott the show (TIME, June 5). Possibly to rebut the allegation that they were just old fuddy-duddies, the jurors toppled over backward, chose whole roomfuls of alfalfa-dry, determinedly subjectless and mostly meritless efforts by the Academy of the Left. The leavening in their dull, predictable company was provided by a few comparatively young and little-known painters with a sense of self. Honolulu's Ben Norris translated mountains into a jagged, energetic shorthand that almost soared. Boston's Lawrence...