Word: dryness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though he paints people and things he sees, Koerner assembles them to suit himself on carefully planned canvases. No one could fail to appreciate the competence of Koerner's last exhibition (TIME, March 27), but many complained of its tightness and dryness along with its general atmosphere of gloomy obscurity. His new paintings, on view in a Manhattan gallery last week, suffer less noticeably from such faults...
Like all good Irishmen, Boston's will start the day with a long walk, a parade in South Boston. Wear green and join the procession. Stores along the route are decked out to receive the marchers with shamrocks and "a bit o' spirits to take the dryness away...
...growth of vegetation) and its geometrically regular details (suggesting intelligent designers and builders) will be explained away by further research -and with them all life on Mars. But perhaps not. "We [have not] demonstrated," De Vaucouleurs says hopefully, "that life could not adapt itself to the known conditions of dryness, temperature, atmospheric pressure and atmospheric composition [on Mars]-after all not so very different from...
Getting ready for his scheduled appearance before Congressman Emanuel Celler's monopoly investigating committee, U.S. Steel Corp.'s stocky Benjamin F. Fairless last week got in some advance licks. "Up to now . . ." said Fairless with unaccustomed dryness, "I've spent most of my time in O'Mahoney's doghouse, but next week I move to Emanuel's cellar...
...Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico had been plowed and pulverized by "suitcase farmers." Lured by record .postwar wheat prices, they had sent gigantic plows into the poorest lands of the plains to reap quick profits from the opportune cycle of heavy rainfall. Now, in the new dryness, their fields were being abandoned to the drought and wind. If the dry cycle continued through one or two more years, U.S. soil conservationists warned, the pale yellow ghost of the grim dark days could turn both frightening and real...