Word: cool
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over, even played at the Palace on a bill that included Eddie Cantor and George Jessel. In 1952 Boyce was working in a Chicago nightclub called Liberty Inn, and developed the habit of dropping into a nearby church in the early morning after work to listen to the cool music of the organ. Then he began to stay for Mass. He became a Roman Catholic, and two years later he went to the Servites and told his story to the director of vocations, Father Hugh Calkins, O.S.M. (Order of Servants of Mary). Did a hot saxophonist have a chance...
...slick floating on water. The colors have nothing to do with the real colors in visible light of the object that Eva is viewing. They show thin or thick parts of the oil film-and therefore outline the object by its temperature. Hot parts show in one color, cool parts in another. Eva can distinguish 1° differences in temperature...
Even in international financing that is a lot of money. When Nasser put his plan before the World Bank three years ago, President Eugene Black was cool. Nasser's military junta and the unstable condition of Egypt gave shareholders no guarantee that their investment would be protected. Said Black: "The Bank is a bank, not a handout business." While the World Bank hesitated, Nasser talked to the Russians, who are supplying him with arms from the Czech armament factories. The Russians offered to lend Egypt $300 million for 30 years at 2% interest, promised to complete...
...find his own way as an artist until he was past 40. Although he spent more than half of his life in Germany, his painting owes little to German expressionism. Its technique is borrowed from Paris cubism; its architectonic spirit relates to Gothic churches and Bach fugues; its cool severity seems a personal reflection of modern engineering. Says U.C.L.A. Art Gallery Director Frederick Wight: Feininger "unlearned the last century's concept of [space as] a three-dimensional void. Instead, he gradually makes a clearing around the object through a series of projections. Feininger's object-with which...
...plea of Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden for a relaxation of the Allied embargo against trade to Red China got a cool reception in Washington last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Part of the reason was an angry blast by the Senate Investigations Subcommittee at the "shocking" flow of strategic goods already leaking out to Red nations, mainly Russia. The subcommittee voted unanimously for public hearings on the effect of an agreement two years ago to cut the Battle Act embargo list for Western Allies from 297 to 217 items and the international quantitative control list from 90 to 20 items...