Word: existance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Most I-15 are in mental hospitals; an I-2 believes that he is the hub of the world, which exists to take care of him. An I-3 knows that something is expected of him, but hopes to find an angle or gimmick to get around it. I-4 knows better than this, but feels inadequate and doesn't know what to do with that part of himself that fails to come up to his ideal of a strong and capable man. I-5 knows that he has a strong side, a protective side and a side that...
Perhaps the most exciting of the lot was Grünewald's Crucifixion, one of just 15 paintings by the German master that are known to exist. The torment of Grünewald's art exerts a peculiar fascination for 20th century connoisseurs: more than 400 studies of him have been published since 1914. The National Gallery has always been weak in German art (as are most galleries west of the Rhine) but the Kress gifts will change all that. According to Guy Emerson, vice director of the Kress Foundation, Grünewald's Crucifixion will dominate...
...Chaos, danced so wildly that great wind sprang up. The goddess caressed the wind and it became a great serpent which coiled itself lustfully around her. The goddess became pregnant, assumed a dove's form laid "the Universal Egg." Out of the Egg tumbled all things that exist sun, moon, planets, stars, the earth with its mountains and rivers, its trees, herbs and living creatures." Swollen with pride the serpent declared himself "the author ot tne universe," which made the goddess so angry that she kicked out his teeth and banished him to the dark caves below the earth...
...Said Italy's Budget Minister Ezio Vanoni, a steadfast Mattei supporter, at the closing session: "To realize these sources of wealth . . . asks the collaboration of all forces and all initiatives. The Italian government is hence pledged to friendly countries not to neglect exploitation of whatever resources exist in this country." To U.S. oilmen in Italy, it all had the sound of progress. Said one: "I still want to see some action before I get too enthusiastic. But the fact that he would even make such a speech is grounds for optimism...
...report had a Utopian and distant sound about it. The diehard majority of British settlers is sure to oppose it, and to try to sabotage any attempt at implementation; the settlers can say, with reason, that conditions for peaceful transfer of land between races do not now exist. But some day soon in darkest East Africa, a start must somehow be made; something new must be offered the Africans in place of blood-cults and drums, prejudice and pangas flashing in the night...