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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ashen pale, Ben-Gurion said: "I feel it my duty on behalf of the government, the police force and myself to express our profound concern that such an act has been possible here-an act which strikes a blow at the most sacred foundations of human morality drawn from Israel's Torah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: Massacre of the Innocents | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

Less recognized, but equally true, is the fact that Hopper, at 74, expresses the present moment of American life with all the vigor and attachment of youth. The tradition he practices has nothing to do with convention. It involves no set approach, and never stoops to slavish copying. Hopper seldom sketches on the spot; he has not painted an oil direct from nature in 15 years. What he shares with the other great realists in American painting history is a heartfelt regard for the here and now, together with an overmastering desire to understand it intimately and express it clearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Silent Witness | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

...look all the time," Hopper explains, "for something that suggests something to me. I think about it. Just to paint a representation or a design is not hard, but to express a thought in painting is. Thought is fluid. What you put on canvas is concrete, and it tends to direct the thought. The more you put on canvas, the more you lose control of the thought. I've never' been able to paint what I set out to paint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Silent Witness | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

...blurted: "I congratulate you." When Truman asked, "What for?" Vicky explained: "For looking more like my caricatures than I thought you did." In Vicky's gallery, Khrushchev looks like a Charles Addams rendering of a prizefighter; Lord Beaverbrook, empire-building publisher of the Mirror's opposition Daily Express, is a big-mouthed dwarf in crusader's armor; Churchill is a cigar-waving Dickensian comic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mocksman of the Mirror | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

...introduction to a critique of the eighty-fifth to ninety-fifth Cantos of Ezra Pound, MacLeish deplored the tendency of modern mass communication to express only the obvious, because of the need to cater to the "mental mass." The recent gains of such mass media might indicate the death knell for the printing press, he continued, except for the growing importance of books for expression of dissent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MacLeish Stresses Dissension in Books | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

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