Word: hangings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Large & Small. Today Calder mobiles grace living rooms from Tokyo to Rio de Janeiro, hang in museums from Massachusetts to Moscow, enliven public and business buildings from Beirut to New York's International Airport (see color page). A water-ballet fountain performs at Detroit's General Motors Technical Center; a 21-ft. motorized, mobile-topped stabile called The Whirling Ear guards the outside pool of the U.S. Pavilion at the Brussels World's Fair (Calder's commission: $10,000). Last week Mr. Mobile left his Roxbury studio and flew to Spoleto, Italy, to supervise the installation...
...abrupt, frenetic and clumsy switch against Tito suggested that Russia has now concluded that any benefits to be had from Tito's friendship are outweighed by the disorder in the satellites caused by Tito's talk of separate roads to socialism. When in doubt, the Russians hang on to what they have, and never mind opinions in the rest of the world...
Subversive. In Perugia, Italy, Luigi Durante, in jail for theft, threw a rope over a hook in the ceiling of his cell, tried to hang himself, had four months added to his sentence when the hook pulled out of the ceiling and he was found guilty of "doing material damage to the state...
Crimson teams usually think of a victory over Yale as a welcome end in itself, but when the varsity baseball squad meets the Elis in New Haven tomorrow, a more historic objective will hang in the balance...
...ingenuity to subvert the reality principle, the others rip aside the workaday facade of sanity with even less regard for the reader's preconceptions than a genuine madman. They destroy the grammatical and conceptual continuities on which we base our hackneyed understanding without offering anything on which to hang a new vision of things, and the result is often mere anarchy...