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Word: headful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...centuries later, Velasquez emphasized "hollow space"-the area between the eye and the thing seen. In recording only a dazzle of colored lights, the impressionists brought painting smack up to the retina. Picasso carried the same process a step further, painting what was back of the eyeball, inside his head. "[In the Picasso school] the eyes, instead of absorbing things, are converted into projectors of private flora and fauna. Before, the real world drained off into them; now, they are reservoirs of irreality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Last Stop | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

...Midwestern parishes behind him. In the last eight years he has swelled his Madison, Wis. congregation from 600 to 1,500, housed the overflow in a streamlined Quonset-type chapel which he helped to design. When Kent trustees began looking for a "live-wire with a soul" to head Kent last spring, they lit on John Patterson as their man, persuaded him to exchange his varied duties as parish rector for the narrower duties of head of a tight academic community; give up fishing in the cool lakes of Wisconsin for the streams of Connecticut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Pater | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

When Father Patterson takes over this fall, Kent anticipates few changes in its way of life. The new head has pledged himself to carry on Founder Sill's original program and continue to make "every aspect of life on the campus express and induce Christian principles and Christian living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Pater | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

Last week, the inevitable happened. Keady stomped out of a directors' meeting. "I am leaving U.S. Gypsum," he said. "Mr. Avery has decided to re-enter the active management of the company." Snapped Avery: "I have been operating head of the company since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: No. 12 | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

...Manhattan, Henry Modell pushed his idea for an "AntiDepression Week." Modell, head of a chain of sporting-goods stores, has persuaded 2,200 retailers across the country to cut their prices an extra 10% from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SELLING: Warming Up | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

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