Word: closed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...resident of Leningrad. Cordier smuggled the canvases out in a yard-wide roll of cotton cloth. While the young painter might well have had access to foreign art magazines, Cordier feels the work is too "naive" and violently experimental to suggest that he had seen any Western examples at close hand...
Unless Constantine wished to mark the exact spot of a very holy place, argue the authors, he would not have gone to such enormous trouble, since level sites unencumbered by tombs lay close by. Clearly, the argument runs. Constantine wanted this location because he believed he was enshrining the grave of St. Peter...
Bankers & Boeing. The industry obviously considered itself in serious trouble. Many companies operate so close to the line that they will be pressed to meet payrolls without 100% Air Force payments each month. Nor will it be easy to get outside loans to replace the deferred 25%. Though full payment will come when the Air Force gets more money at the end of fiscal 1958 or when money loosens because of heavier Treasury receipts, the feast-and-famine aircraft business is such a questionable risk that few banks are eager to lend scarce funds. Those who do get interim financing...
Alain wants a young actress, but the actress, who has already been the property of Alain's assistant, Bernard, falls for Alain's cousin from Normandy. Does this mean that Alain goes back to his wife Fanny? No, he winds up as a barfly and close friend of a prostitute. As for Bernard, he does not want the actress; he wants Josee, who is beautiful, drives fast cars and gets more money than anyone needs from her family in North Africa. Naturally, she does not want any part of Bernard. For her it is a vulgar-but-vital...
...book is a raggedly plotted novel whose first-person heroine, Sister Ursula, obviously walks in the footsteps of Monica Baldwin. Unhappily, Author Baldwin's story of a nun who misjudges her vocation also treads close on the path of Kathryn Hulme's The Nun's Story, and by comparison comes off secondbest. Such fascination as it has lies in the book's embittered documentation of a nun's daily round and the romantic-escapist character of Sister Ursula who acts like an adolescent schoolgirl at the stage door of heaven waiting...