Word: eye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Child Prodigy. In Danbury, Conn., firemen answered a false alarm, nabbed a four-year-old boy, who promptly punched one of them in the eye, brought out the rest of the department with another alarm, and escaped in the confusion...
...University Press, $20) De Tolnay interprets the entire chapel in the light of a single theme. Deep inside De Tolnay's brier patch of facts and shrewd guesses lies new evidence that Michelangelo, like all great artists, was a genius in mind and spirit as well as in eye and hand...
...opening-he spent the day turning out more pots and vases in a friend's tiny factory-but his worshipers flocked from far away to see what the master was up to now. Vallauris' Communist mayor sized up the well-heeled throng with a joyful eye, and announced his intention of making Picasso an honorary citizen of the town ("My friend the mayor of Antibes and his gang of De Gaullists are going to die of envy...
...speed, the airstream rushing over the canopy makes a moderate, roar. There is hardly any vibration. Experienced pilots say that the plane handles "like a kiddie-car." When it makes a "low pass," flying close to the ground at 550 m.p.h., objects far ahead seem to vanish before the eye has time to take a second look...
Thus Henry Scobie, leading man in The Heart of the Matter, is singled out as by a movie camera's swooping eye from the rest of the world; and readers of Graham Greene's previous novels will not have to read far in this one before they know that they have met Scobie and his world before. For this world, disguised though it is under African heat, is the same cruel, sordid, vulturous hell that Greene has conjured up in most of 14 books, and Hero Scobie is Greene's equally familiar creation-a sinner disguised...