Word: elements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visual construction, which gives the impression of ascension. While Derry Griscom's more complex poem about the sculpted figure of a Chinese warlord develops several ideas successfully, he adds one idea too many when he begins to speculate not only on the figure, but its creator. The additional element only serves to disturb the dignity of the immobile warlord. The third poem on art is Andre Gregory's impression of impressionism, in which he exposes the cultural disintegration implicit in modern art. If Gregory's poem is to be considered for its serious significance, one can only say that...
...Yell Leader. As a towheaded toddler, Goodie never had to be urged to climb up on a chair and sing or recite for guests. When he reached Manual Arts High School, Goodie swam in his natural element. There was plenty of competition (among his class of 1915: General Jimmy Doolittle, Frank Capra, Lawrence Tibbett, former Lieutenant Governor Buron Fitts), but Goodie rose like a bubble in a glass of beer to the head of the class. He was yell leader, composer of school songs, star of the debating team, an enthusiastic member of the glee club and the dramatic society...
...Alberto Burri even managed to be pleasantly shocking. His "pictures" consisted chiefly of ripped, patched and pasted burlap. Sculptor Mirko (last name, Basaldella) exhibited four metal abstractions in four separate styles, each startlingly successful. His Chimera has the still aliveness of an ancient Chinese bronze; his Architectonic Element is a single sheet of brass cut and bent to take the light as elaborately as a great scarred cliff...
...stability of metals, one element of the index, is due partly to the way the Government has been handling its stockpiling programs. Some metals have been bought to support prices or released to ease them. For example, to help fill the current copper shortage, the U.S. Office of Defense Mobilization announced that in the third quarter of this year American industry will get 16,000 tons of copper that had been earmarked for the federal stockpile...
...element in the President's cautious optimism may have been his recent contact with the enemy's high command. Ike confirmed the report that he had corresponded with Marshal Georgy Zhukov, the Soviet Defense Minister, whom he knew and liked in Germany after World War II. He said the letters were of no great significance, and were "based upon old friendship . . . absolutely personal...