Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Less evident to a nonexpert eye is a difference that will save taxpayers many a dollar. Until recently, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing printed all U.S. currency on flat-bed presses, using moistened paper, a process that took 15 days. Last week's new singles were printed on dry paper on British-made Rotary presses. The new three-day process will substantially trim the wet-printing cost of 1? a bill, and since the bureau makes a lot of money (1,641,488,000 pieces of paper currency in fiscal 1957), the yearly savings will...
...eighth House, until recently but a gleam in the eye of expansion, is fast becoming a tangible if somewhat dubious architectural reality. Judging from recently approved preliminary drawings, Lamont Library and the colossus of Harkness Commons seem to be gaining a spiritual...
Fire Down Below. Lust, betrayal and revenge in the Caribbean-all slanted by Scriptwriter Irwin Shaw's eye for irony; with Robert Mitchum, Rita Hayworth, Jack Lemmon (TIME, July...
...killed in the war, and his family has fallen on evil days. To keep the big house going, they have let all the servants go, and they take in transients during the season. They take in two young men from Athens, one of whom (Dimitri Horn) soon has his eye on Marina. At first she is cool. She is bitterly ashamed of her family's poverty, and almost morbid with humiliation when the whole town starts to talk about her mother, who has been beating about the bushes with a local lounger ("The older the hen," somebody snickers...
John Aubrey, 17th century English gentleman of leisure, had a painter's eye for human traits and a gossip columnist's passion for scandal. Both talents he diligently brought to his famous prose portraits, one of which was 23,000 words long, while another never got beyond one line, i.e., "Dr. Pell is positive that his name was Holybushe." Aubrey's Lives have been the historian's bounty and bane: his research was fascinating, but often based on mere hearsay. Whatever his shortcomings, no other biographer has ever written more vivid, true-to-life descriptions...