Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Baker's arrival was timed for the formal opening of our new offices in the Sankei Kaikan. These quarters are in sharp contrast to our first home in bombed-out postwar Tokyo. Hard on the heels of General MacArthur, TIME moved into the Japanese capital, set up shop in backrooms above the Kyo-bunkwan bookstore and published its pony-size, adless Far Eastern edition. Last week some 400 Japanese and foreigners came to see our new quarters, and to sip, among other drinks, such an inscrutable concoction as the "Monkey Gland" (gin, orange juice, D.O.M. and grenadine...
...Bevan, by contrast, was all slash and stab. "The Tawies have got the difficult task ... of trying to persuade the poor to vote the rich back into power . . . Eden has been the best-looking man in British politics for 40 years . . . He's been sitting on his charger waiting for Sir Winston to ride and . . . now he's a bit saddle-sore...
...evident in the precision he gives to the execution of his work and the mathematical balance applied to composition. Furthermore, the materials he uses, wire and sheet steel, are products of a technologically advanced culture. However, for the most part these materials are welded into flowing metal metaphors. In contrast to painter Ferdinand Leger or the constructivist sculptors who have also integrated science and aesthetics, Calder is not primarily concerned with industrial or mechanical shapes. His design, as the titles "Spider" and "Big Worm--Little Worm" suggest, stems from nature. Beyond direct observation of natural phenomena the biological shapes...
Beside Mobiles the exhibit at the Graduate School of Design includes a number of "Stabiles," the name John Arp gave Calder's stationary sculpture. "Big Ear" is an example of how bulky these pieces can get and is an interesting contrast to the airiness of the mobiles. The wire "Stabiles" have always been noted for their humor, and "Reclining Nude" and "Polo Rider" are no exception...
Citing Moscow's own figures, Hoover said that agricultural production in the Soviet Union has increased by only ten percent since 1940, although more than half of the labor force is engaged in agriculture and population is increasing by three million persons each year. In contrast, the United States "has produced more than enough food for our population, and yet we have the lowest percentage of people employed in agriculture of any country in the world," he said...