Word: gazes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they gaze into the decade of the 19605, the economists see a population growth for the U.S. that will push the number of Americans past the 200 million mark by 1970, a population so much in need of homes, clothes, autos and all the other things that Americans expect as their birthright that the U.S. will be ripe for a $700 billion economy in ten years...
Speaking to a reasonably square audience in Boston, opinion-crammed Anthropologist Margaret (Coming of Age in Samoa) Mead, 57, turned her withering gaze on the beatniks, did her high-level best to define one: "A person who can't tolerate the meaninglessness of the low level of goodness, and just because it is both low level and good casts his artistic rebellions in bizarre and often misunderstood forms...
...Roberto Rossellini in a Roman court, there to do battle against his latest attempt to gain permanent custody of their three children, who are now in the 13th week of a two-month visit with their father. Distantly, she called him "Signor Rossellini." He baked her in a Latin gaze. "Ingrid," he said, "call me Roberto." With that, her reserve melted into tears. When the show was over, Judge Giovanni Salemi agreed to let her keep the children. She could pick them up next month...
...rarely monopolize Author Mishima's vision. He is especially good at charting the whiplash currents of the Japanese temperament, swerving in an instant from refinement to cruelty. His tilt with tradition is spirited but distinctly un-Japanese. Since 1950, the Kinkakuji has been meticulously rebuilt, and may well gaze at its limpid image in the Kyoko Pond for another demi-millennium...
...committee from more than 100 painters to immortalize Goodie in oil for a $3,000 fee. Last week Knight saw the result for the first time. His reaction: anguish. His main objections were to the color of his suit (brown, which he never wears) and the angle of his gaze (oblique, instead of piercing the viewer from any angle). Said Goodie: "All the eyes follow you at the capitol. That's very important. [Culbert] Olson and [Earl] Warren-the eyes follow you. I said to Booth during the sittings, I said, 'Mr. Booth, please, put the eyes like...