Word: finding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that they would say a gazelle is beautiful or a deer," he explains. "But a bulldog, or a bull, or a rhinoceros has a terrific force in him, a strength that even if you don't immediately realize it, you come to recognize as beautiful and important. I find a bull much more beautiful than a frisking lamb, or a fleshy beechtree trunk more beautiful than an orchid...
...shaped, minuscule head on a figure that is otherwise so real? "Do people today find it odd that the figures in Chartres have bodies made of little more than straight sticks?" he asks. "Michelangelo's heads would sometimes go ten or more times into his bodies. This is the head I made when I did the figure. I wondered about it. And experimented. I removed this head and replaced it with one that was more representational. It didn't work. This head is right for this figure." He adds defensively: "Some people have said I make the head...
...President Eisenhower, the lackadaisical approach of management and labor toward settling the steel strike called for some knuckle rapping. Last week, in a stern letter to the heads of the twelve major steel companies and the steelworkers' union, the President said that they "must find" a quick way to settle the nine-week-old shutdown. He was plainly irritated by the fact that both sides were merely going through the motions of negotiating. Demanded the President: "Halfhearted bargaining is not enough. Intensive, uninterrupted, good-faith bargaining with a will to make a responsible settlement is required...
...President specifically urged the two sides to compromise their differences. The American people, said the President, have a right to expect a "measuring up" to joint responsibility by union and management, since a "reasonable basis for a settlement" exists. Wrote the President: "The steelworkers and the steel companies must find that way expeditiously...
Thus the Catholic will find religion a constantly recurring topic of conversation, his friends getting the feel of his faith as they might test the temperature of the ocean in early June. But they are not prepared to swim. Their first position is the easy one of attack. They know all the old arguments and most of the new ones; the Catholic has to know more. His defense has to be alive, the natural corollary to a living faith; it must be forceful and impressive, stemming from all that his commitment means to him. His defense will not convince others...