Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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DEMOCRATS Man Out Front (See Cover...
...loved others. She had subjected him to deep frustration. Also, his development had somehow been arrested so that he continued, childlike, to perceive people as mere objects. As a young man, Eddie Gein had tittered over the family's medical guide with its revealing anatomical drawings and its front-cover injunction: "You can do nothing to bring the dead to life, but you can do much to save the living from death." For Gein, say the psychiatrists, cutting up women (who reminded him of mother) and preserving parts of them satisfied two contradictory urges: to bring her back to life...
...Chevalier de Meré asked Pascal to figure out his chances of winning a dice game when interrupted at any particular moment. The high point of the series is a show on the new field of topology. Using every sort of trick-from figuring out how a boy can cover his newspaper route without ever retracing his steps, to taking off his vest without removing his coat-Baird gradually gets across the idea that topology is merely "the study of what remains unchanged in a thing," even when the shape of the thing has been completely altered, short of being...
...lines into a great sign which suppresses the descriptive tendency of the line." The results won the praise of oldtime Surrealist Picabia, who called Soulages' work the best painting in the 1947 Salon des Surindépendents. When a black-and-white Soulages painting was used as the cover for the catalogue of a show of young painters traveling to West Germany, Soulages was made. Repeating the formula ever since has only increased his fame, placed him in the front ranks of French abstract painters. As a leading exponent of the new school. Soulages delivers its manifesto: "The School...
When a crowded passenger train jumped the tracks and crashed in Medford, Mass, one morning last week, the Quincy Patriot Ledger had to race twelve miles farther for the story than the dailies in nearby Boston. Nonetheless, the alert evening Ledger (slogan: "Cover the World and Don't Forget the South Shore") had its expert wrap-up of the story (EXPRESS TRAIN WRECKED ON BRIDGE IN MEDFORD; 2 KILLED, MANY INJURED) in readers' hands long before metropolitan papers got to the South Shore with the story...