Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These developments are all peopled by the newly prospering Negro middle class, who all seem to have one thing in common : a fever for good living. Technicians, professional men, teachers, nurses, well-paid factory workers, federal employees-they settle where the air is clean and the schools good, join the P.T.A., buy power lawnmowers, curse the crab grass, endure the rigors of commuting, barbecue their steaks, buy second cars and second TV sets, grumble about taxes...
...tend to award them their prizes. The jury at Chicago's Art Institute gave Richard Talaber, 26, the top prize for just such a picture. At Boston's elaborate summer Arts Festival, the Grand Prize went to a sculptor, Gilbert Franklin, for his safely modern Beach Figure, clean-lined and anonymous as a newel post. But the public has yet to acquire the jurist's inhibitions. Critics see form first in a work of art; the average layman sees content. At Boston's Festival, viewers voted overwhelmingly for Gardner Cox's Robert Frost...
WHEN U.S. Commodore M. C. Perry opened Japan to Western influence in 1853, he dealt a death blow in its own homeland to a waning but graceful and distinctively Japanese art-the woodblock print. But the clean, flat patterns of Japanese printers had a major influence on Western painters from Whistler to Matisse. A century later, the influence has been reversed. Japanese artists, freshly inspired by the works of European post-impressionists and abstractionists, are breathing new life into an old form...
...time into a long, long fight for labor reform with teeth. Last April the Senate passed the mild and much-amended Kennedy-Ervin bill that requires unions to make annual financial accounting, bars convicts from high union jobs, respects rank-and-file rights, but makes no real move to clean up abuses of boycott and picketing power. Last fortnight the House Labor and Education Committee reported the milder-than-that Elliott bill (TIME. Aug. 3), which was favored by Speaker Sam Rayburn, opposed by a powerful coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats...
...knew I wanted to go into the oil business, so why waste time?"), has been put in charge of streamlining the Getty domain. He worked in most of its outposts, was made president of Tidewater in May 1958 and shook up management. "The new broom," he grins, "sweeps clean...