Word: haring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...army almost in half, London's bleak, grey War Office has gone almost on a wartime footing of late nights and worried councils, to determine which of the nation's famed regiments should be spared and which must go.Last week 46-year-old War Secretary John Hare faced newsmen and a battery of television lights to break the news. In less than an hour, Hare sounded the Last Post for 51 major army units and many more smaller units. By 1962, Britain's army, now 370,000 strong, will number only...
...They drew all manner of things-everything that begins with an M-" "Why with an M?" said Alice. "Why not?" said the March Hare...
Irving (The Fabulous Originals) Wallace uses these lines from Alice in Wonderland as foreword to his studies of nine Americans of the March hare species. Wallace's fondness for just-this-side-of-the-nuthouse characters began in adolescence, when Wilbur Glenn Voliva, onetime high prophet of Zion City, Ill., personally assured him that the earth was shaped like a saucer and the sky ''a solid dome." Wallace concedes that Voliva's own dome was probably far from solid, but he argues that Voliva stood for ''the human freedom to be different...
Morris Graves, Kenneth Callahan, Guy Anderson) and four New York sculptors (Rhys Caparn, David Hare, Seymour Lipton, Ezio Martinelli). Their paintings and sculptures range from simplified realism to completely nonobjective works, but both shows have a strong list to the abstract...
...Tobey's placid, cotton-soft Fountains of Europe and Callahan's turbulent, semi-semi-objective Fiery Night (see color page). The sculpture is no less recherche. Not untypical are Lipton's exotic Night Bloom, with its nickel-silver-on-steel petals closing with tropical luxuriance, and Hare's abstract bronze. Bush of Elephants, with its distorted suggestion of tusks and elephants' ears...