Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Useful Yolk. Wyeth's sister Henriette (herself a portraitist) had married Painter Peter Hurd-a fast friend of Andy's. Together Peter and Andy explored the meticulous egg-tempera technique, painting with small brushes on panels, which suits them both perfectly. The technique was standard during the Renaissance, and Wyeth says that "so much hokum has been written about it you feel you have to be a chemist to start on a picture." Wyeth's method is simple: for each day's work he mixes the yolk of one egg with a little distilled water, makes...
...Take four mixing-spoonfuls of Barbados molasses; two hen's eggs, or one loon's egg; one pint of creamy milk, or one pint of new-fallen snow which also has a rising virtue, and one pint of water. Beat this together...
...Guano Co.'s armed guards patrol the small islands off Peru, where most of the birds live, protecting them against human egg robbers as well as against their natural enemies: vultures and condors. The islands' cliffs have been topped with walls to make the birds take off at a sharp rate of climb instead of trailing their feet and knocking precious guano into the water. Passing ships are prohibited from blowing their whistles, for even a brief toot will scare the birds into the air, where they mill in black clouds wasting their guano...
...expansion of the Holy See's diplomatic machinery. Having spent almost his entire priesthood in the diplomatic service (nine years of it as Secretary of State), Pius XII now serves as his own Secretary of State and is reputed to have accomplished some of the most skillful diplomatic egg-walking of modern times. But before long, Vatican observers report, the Pope may turn the job of directing the enlarged diplomatic service over to a committee of perhaps nine cardinals...
...however, strongly support Hume's greatness on the ground that the force of his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived. It is not a question of the cart before the horse in either case, merely the old problem of which came first the chicken or the egg. In any case, there is much to be said on both sides...