Word: ets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jackson Pollock's abstractions (TIME, Dec. i, 1947 et seq.) stump experts as well as laymen. Laymen wonder what to look for in the labyrinths which Pollock achieves by dripping paint onto canvases laid flat on the floor; experts wonder what on earth to say about the artist. One advance-guard U.S. critic has gone so far as to call him the "most powerful painter in America." Another, more cautious, reported that Pollock "has carried the irrational quality of picture-making to one extremity" (meaning, presumably, his foot). The Museum of Modern Art's earnest Alfred Barf...
Before the National Assembly last week was a bill to extend military service from 12 to 18 months. The Reds had fought it with the slogan: "Down with 18 months' service!" But their campaign melted away when Paix et Liberté countered: "Down with 18 months' service! We want three years' service, same as in Russia!" Then the comrades showed how badly they had been hurt. They decided that Paix et Liberté was so dangerous that it had better be ignored. Mention of it was banned in the Red press...
David is reserving his own best efforts to exposure of "the greatest Communist lie of all-the lie that Communism seeks peace." This week 150,000 Paix et Liberté posters will go up all over France; on them Picasso's dove, featured in the Communist Stockholm petition, has been painted bright red. Under it are the words: "La colombe qui fait bourn!" (The dove that goes boom!). From the red bird's mouth dangles the olive branch, but its feet are the treads of a tank and its wings sprout guns...
...Burma government last week seemed to be looking for a graceful way to drop a hot potato, i.e., its prosecution for "high treason" of famed Burma Surgeon Gordon S. Seagrave (TIME., Oct. 16 et...
...Atlanta, Evangelist Billy Graham (TIME, Nov. 14, 1949 et seq.) was well under way with a soul-saving campaign in the Ponce de Leon ballpark fitted out to accommodate more than 20,000 people. With flashing eyes and flailing arms, the well-dressed young (32) successor to Billy Sunday was wringing fervent amens and penitence from his audience night after night. Mankind now stands on the brink of destruction, he warned his listeners. "Unless God sends a great awakening to the world, my two little girls will never see high school...