Word: curiousity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Downing Street, Sir Winston Churchill was nominated without opposition in his old constituency of Woodford. In Eden's opening campaign speech to the country, Churchill was not even referred to. "There is of course no gratitude in politics," commented the Manchester Guardian. "But it... does seem a little curious that the Tory Party should have dropped Sir Winston . . . absolutely, as if he had become a liability, almost an outcast." Before the week was out, Eden dispatched an amends-seeking note to "the architect of our success . . . the leader under whom I have been so proud to serve...
Into Cruz's timeless existence one day, word came that the hacienda was to have a new patron with a curious name: Cornell University of Ithaca, N.Y. The faraway university proposed (with help from the Carnegie Corporation of New York) to experiment on the most effective ways for bringing modern know-how to primitive peoples. What the job required, in effect, was an isolated human laboratory; Cornell's Professor Holmberg, who once tramped the Andes on a field mission, had picked Vicos...
...Whitney's show underlined a curious gloom in U.S. sculptors today. Mostly they weld metal figures of a tormented yet unsympathetic sort. Forbiddingly invested with knobs, prickles and outright spikes, the figures imprison a bit of free air and defy anyone to invade it. David Hare's sculptures were a happy exception to the grim parade. Long dour as the rest, Hare has now invented a new and carefree impressionism. His Sunrise creates an effect of light and loftiness out of a rock, some steel bars and cut bronze sheets tinted with gold. Another exception was Richard Lippold...
...English. None of Lewis' later novels-even The Revenge for Love, The Apes of God, The Childermass-has ousted Tarr from first place, but each displays uniquely the mingled anger, intellectual probity and hair-raising humor that are the stamp of a Lewis opus. What is most curious and most defective about all these novels is that Lewis, archapostle of gardeners and barbers, is himself in capable of giving his often cumbersome style a well-trimmed look...
...those with the top academic records, then sent out a team of professors to interview them. The professor who talked to Supple kept asking him why he wanted to be an engineer. He also spoke to Supple's teachers, tried to find out whether the boy was really curious, or merely out for marks. Caltech has good reason for such probing: unless a student wants to be an engineer or a scientist with all his heart, he will simply not get through...