Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rome last week a taut, red-faced man with an angry glint in his eye called in New York Times Correspondent Paul Hofmann and unburdened himself of a bitter complaint. "The Americans," said he, "have done a nasty thing to Italy in Libya...
...there are times when the nerve ends rub raw to the point of jitters, and the newsman's skeptical eye overlooks the good news for the bad, and for the big headlines the bad brings...
Dots in the Eye. Even to his contemporaries, who did not know until after Seurat's death that the dark, aloof painter had taken one of his models as mistress and fathered a son, the pointillist was a distant, mysterious yet compelling figure. Born the son of a well-to-do but highly eccentric Paris bailiff (who astonished dinner guests by screwing knives and forks into his artificial arm to do the carving), young Seurat got only passing marks from his drawing teacher. On his own, he delved into weighty scientific treatises. Haunting the Louvre's galleries...
Hopkins next cast his eye on a company that was nearly twice as big as both Canadair and Electric Boat together: California's Consolidated Vultee Aircraft (Convair), sixth largest U.S. airframe manufacturer. Convair-had been having its ups and downs, and Owner Floyd Odium ler in developing the hydrogen bomb...
...Tillich," he said to me. "Tillich. That's the stuff you want to read. Sophisticated. Twentieth-century. The cutting edge of knowledge. All the insights of White-head, Freud, Jung, Buber, Langer, Kierkegaard, Satre, et cetera. And more," he said looking me straight in the eye...