Word: fragment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Surgeon Kenneth Macfarlane Walker was a captain in Great Britain's Army Medical Corps. Statistically-minded, he noted that a third of the battlefield dead died of chest wounds, that as few as 3% of chest-wound victims reached a dressing station alive. Reason: even a tiny fragment of bomb or shell, piercing the chest cavity, can easily rip a large blood vessel, bring quick death...
...distracting, her clothes too Paris-perfect. He asked about her qualifications. She was 26 years old, had investigated conditions among textile work ers in France and England, had worked on a newspaper in Albany, N. Y., for the United Press in Paris, for the New Republic - a mere fragment of her full story...
Neither abstract nor academic, he uses a selective symbolism that packs more into a fragment than many sculptors get in a whole figure. Mother and Child consists of a woman's head and arm, with a baby's head nestled peacefully in the palm of her hand. The double mask Time shows the same face in youth and old age. Zog of Albania commissioned Time last spring, lost his throne before it could be delivered. "Fortunately I received the mo-nee," says Fingesten with a grin, "and it paid for my passage to America...