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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Parmelin. Every day after lunch he would go up to his studio "like someone going up to the scaffold." Picasso was attempting to repaint in his own manner and to do an analysis on canvas of the picture he considers one of the world's greatest-Velásquez' Las Meninas...
...demand for justice and for reasons comes to the same unanswering answer. A few days before he died, the greatest of modern poets, William Butler Yeats, wrote to a friend that he had found what, all his life, he had been looking for. But when, in that letter, he went on to spell his answer out in words, it was not an answer made of words: it was an answer made of life: 'When I try to put it all into a phrase I say, "Man can embody truth but he cannot know...
...rise in U.S. production, steadily picking up speed, in November made its greatest jump of the last five months. Industrial production, reported the Federal Reserve Board last week, rose three points to 141% of the 1947-49 average, was within four points of its pre-recession peak of August 1957, and two points above a year ago. The rise was largely due to a jump in auto production, which, despite a strike at Chrysler (see below), last week reached 142,609 cars...
...From Reserve Ensign Susumu Kaijitsu, who waited suspenseful weeks before his number came up: "My daily activities are quite ordinary. My greatest concern is not about death, but rather of how I can be sure of sinking an enemy carrier . . . Please watch for the results of my meager effort. If they prove good, think kindly of me and consider it my good fortune . . . Most important of all, do not weep...
Naked, confronted by a world they have faced only in these moments of confessed idiocy, they must retreat blushing. As perhaps the Lampoon's greatest admirers, we can but suggest that its late membership seek new outlets--the Advocate, or perhaps, for the more ambitious, the Yearbook...