Word: endless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three men who took over administration of the unhappy little Caribbean nation ten months ago resigned last week. He was Manuel Tavares Espaillat, 40, a cultured, U.S.-educated (Yale) scholar and the only real administrator and planner in the original triumvirate. He quit because he was disgusted with the endless bickering and backbiting that keeps the country from making any real recovery after more than 30 years of dictatorship...
...north. Instead of constructing moderately priced housing, builders have catered to the lucrative luxury markets, putting up Miami-style apartments that now command as much as $125,000 in Rome. National governments have made halfhearted efforts to create space for the middle class, but have been snarled by endless red tape, inadequate budgets, and a shortage of private capital that has lifted the common mortgage interest rate to 10% to 15% a year...
Norwegians are the most democratic and bourgeois of northerners, regard ostentation as a cardinal sin. They are also Scandinavia's most proficient athletes; everyone from five to 90 skis, swims and hikes. And many of them have summer cottages on the shores of the endless fjords; often businessmen commute to work by hydrofoil. Though 96% of the population is nominally Lutheran, the church plays little part in the nation's life. Says one churchman: "We are suffused with a pale benevolence instead of the antagonism we used to know...
...real show was almost as predictable. With 3,000 paintings, 500 artists and 34 countries represented, the Biennale promised, as usual, to be an embarrassment of riches, and proved, as it often has, to be a mass preview of oblivion. Endless arid abstractions vied with the fossil art of mere representation. Into this esthetic drab land came some young Americans whose vision was fresh even if their art was not fine. The Biennale judges succumbed, and for the third time in the 69-year history of the show awarded the prize to an American, Robert Rauschenberg, 38, "the old master...
...selfdiscipline. Davis told how in 1927 he "nailed a rubber glove, an electric fan and an egg beater to a table and, like Monet with his haystack, stuck with that single subject for a whole year." What he learned was how to explore, distort and transform the objects into endless arrangements on the canvas. His aim was abstraction, but his eye was riveted to the real. And what fascinated his eye was everyday America-gas pumps, factories, skyscrapers, movies, kitchen utensils, and "fast travel by train, auto, and airplane, which brought new and multiple perspectives." This very nearly makes...