Word: fresherator
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...April now and the atmosphere around Philadelphia is noticeably fresher...
Interplanetary News. Teaching the Neighbors a system of numerals Hogben calls his "fresher" (freshman) course. For his sophomore course he casts about for some other topic that earthlings have in common with their Neighbors. The best one, he thinks, is astronomy. The "Venetians" (inhabitants of Venus), who supposedly live at the bottom of an opaque atmosphere, may know nothing about the sky, but the Martians should. Their atmosphere is clearer than the earth...
...urgent as Professor Williams' somewhat hortatory account makes it sound. British Brigadier General Colin R. Ballard spelled it all out a quarter-century' ago in his witty and clear-eyed Military Genius of Abraham Lincoln (just re-issued by World; $5). What Scholar Williams has done, with fresher materials at his disposal, is to chink in the gaps, make the story more watertight. In Lincoln and His Generals, Williams does not refight the Civil War any more than he has to to make his point. The assumption that his readers know enough history to orient themselves will please...
...kind of newspaper pictured in Scandal Sheet was topical 25 years ago, when the film's plot might also have seemed fresher. Nothing is as dead as yesterday's newspaper, but yesteryear's newspaper melodrama comes close...
Last summer, at Venice's big Biennale, gallerygoers got a glimpse of a fresher trend in Spanish painting, the work of a stay-at-home named Benjamin Palencia. Palencia's boldly colored, unsophisticated commentaries on Spanish country life were neither hidebound nor self-consciously revolutionary. This spring when Palencia, now 50, had a one-man show at Madrid's Museum of Modern Art, critics boasted: "Spain has a great new painter . . . the richest temperament since Goya...