Word: foundered
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Having mastered that world, she turned her attentions to another. In 1934 she was introduced to Henry Luce, a missionary's son who was the co-founder and editor in chief of Time Inc. She introduced him to an idea she had dreamed up, a glossy picture magazine to be known as LIFE. Just two days before their wedding, in November 1935, her first play, Abide with Me, opened on Broadway. In a review rewritten by the editor in chief and the playwright herself, the play was panned in TIME for its "tedious psychiatry." It closed after only 36 performances...
...founder was then 80 and shakily in control after the death the previous May of his son Edsel from cancer. In his dotage, the old man had surrounded himself with managerial incompetents and given them enormous power. Among them was Harry Bennett, Ford's pistol-toting aide-de-camp, who had become the company Rasputin. Young Ford demanded that his grandfather turn all management control over to him. "I want a completely free hand," he said. The old man finally relented. In 1945, at 28, Henry Ford II took charge. His first act was to fire Bennett...
...explain the anger in Hite's survey? And, for that matter, why the more general pattern of anti-male literature at a time when, by many measures, women's lot has radically improved? "What has happened," offers Gloria Steinem, feminist author and a founder of Ms. magazine, "is that expectations have increased as reality has gotten better." The balance of power in relationships used to be about 60-40, she contends. "Now we're trying for 50-50. You have to point out the problems, and that's what some of these books are doing...
Because of his later reputation as a photojournalist and the co-founder of the Magnum photo agency, it is easy to forget Cartier-Bresson's debt to Andre Breton, surrealism's chief standard-bearer and truest believer. Breton and his circle of poets and artists wanted to revolutionize both consciousness and society through the purposeful absurdities of the unconscious. To dislodge conventional habits of mind, they practiced unpremeditated methods of creation, "unguided" sketching and automatic writing. Moved by their example, Cartier-Bresson realized that his Leica was the most automatic art instrument of all, one that could make split-second...
...Many Orthodox Jews opposed the Zionist movement, which, starting in the late 19th century, called for a return to Palestine. For them, ^ there could be no Israeli state until the appearance of the Messiah. In order to overcome such objections to nationhood, David Ben-Gurion, the country's political founder, shaped an agreement with Jewish religious leaders in 1947 that attempted to define the role of religion in Israeli life. That declaration, known as the "status quo," made several key concessions to religious authorities. Among them was a pledge that the traditional Friday- evening-to-Saturday-evening Jewish Sabbath would...