Word: corners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Caltech's students are no longer stood in the corner...
Naturally, Reischauer has not abandoned his interest in U.S. foreign policy. He thinks that American policy is beginning to turn a corner, and that "the shift is all in the right direction." He points out, however, that the U.S. "should be trying to prevent crises, instead of waiting for them to surprise us. It has been this way for many years now--first Japan, then China, then Korea. I don't know what's creeping up on us now, but we ought to take a look at Africa and Indonesia...
...right, below, a visitor enviously examines a case of cut precious stones in the Minerological Museum, and in the lower right corner, a model of a glant devilfish hangs over two museum-goers in the Comparative Zoology section...
...Europe turns a corner in its post-war history, what does its youth think of the future? To find out what the younger generation of the Continent's most articulate country thinks, TIME'S editors sent Correspondent Stanley Karnow ranging from Paris up and down France. Karnow talked with young people of all kinds: Communists, Socialists, Catholics, city boys, country boys, students, workers and peasants. And he talked to them in their own language...
Modern poetry often seems a pretty dreary cocktail party. In a quiet corner, of course, perches the aged eagle, T. S. Eliot, 66, still far and away the No. 1 living poet of the 20th century, sipping his extra-dry sherry of resignation. His old white magic still works, but it no longer holds any surprises. Eliot's lesser poetic cousins-Auden, Spender, Stevens-sip the highballs that somehow fail to intoxicate, that are diluted by too much intellectual ice. There are such grand old but long-familiar individualists as Martini-clever e. e. cummings (with lemon peel...