Word: ebbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...main, muffled echoes of yesteryear. By contrast, Brooklyn Museum's aggressively progressive International Water Color Exhibition, showing the works of no U.S. artists plus a selection of French and Japanese water-colorists, is clear evidence that the abstractionist tide is still in full flood, with no ebb in sight...
John Ratte's cover is excellent and Stanley Polumbo's rendition of Oedipus' encounter with the Sphinx is colloquial without being dull, poetic without being poetical. According to the Notes, Judith Johnson, author of "The Tide Begins to Ebb" ("I have gone through the streets/ and studied every motion that I made ..."), "writes poems, plays and stories. She is a freshman living in Cabot Hall...
...murmur of delicate truths-the double-sunrise suggests the early stage of marriage; the oyster, with small shells clinging to its back, symbolizes the middle years of marriage, children, the home; the moon shell reminds her of the importance of solitude. Finally, the paper nautilus recalls the free ebb and flow which she thinks necessary in all good human relationships...
Still, a few bumpy experiences should not have discouraged the editors so easily. Neither God nor Country operates on a five-day week. Nor does the world of journalism, since the desire for news does not ebb and flow with the das of the week. What will happen to Saturday cocktail parties, which have always featured equal parts Gilbey's gin and News gossip? The Men of Yale deserve the news on Saturdays. We have given it to them, and we intend to continue to publish a New Haven CRIMSON each Saturday, until the editors of the News face...
...mother calling "Come to me," her own daughter calling "Mummy," and finally a man telling her that her husband was unfaithful and she should leave him. She had left him many times, only to wind up in hospitals, where electric shock made her outwardly calmer but with no normal ebb and flow of emotional responses. After reserpine, and with no more help from the psychiatrists than she had always had, the woman went home on a maintenance dose of one reserpine pill a day. Her husband had only one complaint: she had become so demanding in her new-found love...