Word: famous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...again last week, with qualifications. Said Churchill: "We mean to set the people free, so far as possible and as soon as possible." He warned that if Socialism causes Britain's economic collapse, "we shall carry many other nations with us into chaos and Communism." He refurbished a famous Churchill-ism for use against the Laborites: "Never before in the history of human government has such great havoc been wrought by such small...
...from his native Italy in France, Bellini stuck close to home all his 86 years, was finally buried in the church of SS. Giovanni e Paolo, which as a young man he had helped to decorate. His only recorded complaint against the city that made him wealthy and world famous: its magistrates' insistence that he continue to pay his union dues to the local painters' guild...
...Union, had asked dozens of Russian youngsters the same innocent-sounding question: "What do you want to be when you grow up?" The answers were disturbing. Last week, in her book, We and Our Children, Russian readers were finding out that their kids want to be great and famous-and hardly any are dreaming of the workaday glories that lie ahead in mills, mines and on collective farms...
Foreshadowings. The exhibition went back to Futurists like Boccioni, included two of his more famous contemporaries who had followed highly individual paths of their own. One of them, Giorgio de Chirico (who has since become a crusty academician-TIME, May 16), was represented by some of his striking early work foreshadowing the Surrealists. The other was Amedeo Modigliani, a much-loved, short-lived alcoholic who was at his best painting tender nudes and portraits based on African sculpture...
...famous motor race track at Le Mans, France, sleek-bonneted speedsters screeched around the turns and thundered down the straightways in the most grueling sport-car endurance race on the speedway calendar. Plugging along at 70 m.p.h. -and letting other models slip past at better speeds-was a 1948 British Aston-Martin coupe. Its two-man crew, a couple of middle-aged English amateurs, were there just to prove that "any British family man who drives with care . . . can give these continental chaps a run for their money...