Word: coolness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Artist Boris Artzybasheff has a cool, ex-machine gunner's eye that can ruffle even the armor of a battleship, and has. With a knack for spotting an ogle where an I-beam ought to be, Artzy has been doing covers for TIME since 1941, created a pistol-packing battleship as background for Japanese Admiral Nagano, a school of sea-monster telescopes for Admiral Doenitz, a Veto-Bug for Gromyko. A special euphoria overtakes Artzy when the humans depart, leaving the machines alone with their fears, grimaces, ulcers and unique sex-appeal. Among Artzy's memorable anthropomorphic revelations...
...half hour longer than it had to be, but the skilled See It Now team made a formidable assignment seem like easy going. They showed not only the newly arrived marvels of "an age when the buttons push themselves" but also "the frustration of displaced workers and the cool, four-day-week visions of scientists, labor leaders and industrialists. The machines alone made exciting viewing: contraptions that land airplanes automatically, spot cancerous tissue through the microscope, run vast chemical plants, tell at a glance the position of every plane over the northeastern U.S. plus their speed, altitude and identity. Some...
...their titles suggest, the novels are a queer quartet: The Dream Life of Balso Snell (1931), Miss Lonelyhearts (1933), A Cool Million (1934), and The Day of the Locust (1939). During his lifetime...
American Candide. In A Cool Million, West burlesqued American optimism of the Horatio Alger type. The book tells of Lemuel Pitkin, who was born in a "humble dwelling much the worse for wear . . . owing to the straitened circumstances of the little family." Like Candide. Lemuel lives out the advice of a philosopher. His is the creed of Nathan "Shagpoke" Whipple, president of the Rat River National Bank and former President of the U.S. In the course of behaving well, e.g., rescuing girls with rich fathers from bolting horses, Lemuel goes to jail, loses a leg, all his teeth...
...promotion of passed-over Captain Hyman G. Rickover, able "father" of the atomic submarine, to rear admiral. He succeeded Roger M. Kyes as Deputy Defense Secretary in May 1954. Sitting in for Defense Secretary Charles Erwin Wilson at National Security Council sessions, he impressed Dwight Eisenhower with his penetrating, cool-headed summary of the case for defending the Nationalist-held islands of Quemoy and Matsu during the Formosa Strait crisis in 1954-55. Over Ike's protests, Anderson left Washington in 1955 to take over the presidency of sprawling Ventures, Ltd., a Canadian mining firm, where in a short...