Word: fabius
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cannot be progressive; the U.S. is capitalist: therefore, the U.S. is an anti-social exploiter, Q.E.D. British Socialists have a special resentment against American capitalism: it works. A decaying American capitalism could be treated with the tolerance and condescension that is the hallmark of the Fabian spirit. But neither Fabius nor Sidney Webb would know what to do with a capitalist enemy that really achieves its ends. The success of American capitalism in raising American living standards can neither be believed nor forgiven. It can only be evaded by talking of "the American treasure house of resources" (as if mass...
Paris' Bernard Lorjou may stick to his conviction that art is a solemn business; to Rome's Fabius Gugel it is no such thing. Gugel's working philosophy is expressed in a neat double negative. "Nothing," he says, "pays off more in the end than not being too serious in art. It's all right to make other people think it's serious, but the artist should never take it too seriously himself...
German-born Fabius Gugel went to Rome 20 years ago. Since then he has sprouted a black goatee and decided to stay. At 40, he thrives at his profession, which embraces theater sets, commercial art, window displays, religious murals, duplications of old paintings, book illustration and, lately, elevator decorating. Last week Gugel was dabbing away at an elevator set up on the terrace of his studio overlooking the Roman Forum. A well-heeled countess named Anna Maria Cicogna takes Gugel's art seriously enough to have offered him $1,600 to decorate the elevator for a new pink marble...
Hospitable N.Y. Fabius and Pompey, about 17 miles southeast of Syracuse, had been without a doctor for five years. Last fall Dr. Brudny, then admitting physician at Brooklyn's Cumberland Hospital, was driving around upstate New York, trying to find a place to settle. The Onondaga County Medical Society referred him to Fabius. Dr. Brudny liked the place, but he had no money to buy a home and office. A Polish-born D.P. and a survivor of Nazi labor camps, he had been in the U.S. less than two years...
...town fathers put their heads together, then their dollars. A corporation was formed which sold $9,000 in shares at $25 each to the people of Fabius and Pompey. The corporation bought a house and remodeled it. Dr. Brudny moved in, with the understanding that if he still likes the place after a year, he may buy the house from the corporation. If not, he may move out, and Fabius-Pompey will look for a new medical...