Word: hungering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Real Hunger. Nordness announced plans to take over Madison Square Garden, show 4,000 works of art painted in 1957. None was to be larger than 48 in. by 48 in. When fellow Manhattan art dealers predicted this would bring a deluge of mediocrities, Nordness agreed to have a jury whittle the entries down to about 1,000 volunteered works which would go into the show along with offerings from a specially invited group of already recognized name artists...
Though five Manhattan galleries turned away from what they considered a monstrous undertaking, Nordness himself got nearly $75,000 in backing, made the rounds of leading U.S. art centers preaching that "there is a real hunger for art if a show can be put on in a place where the public is not afraid to go." Winning the support of some 75 galleries, Nordness soon had to take over five stories of a warehouse to store the 7,000 paintings and sculptures that came rolling in, sweated through a fire that burned down the adjacent building, even surmounted a last...
...Italian government officials, Danilo Dolci's methods for helping the poor of Sicily have always been embarrassingly direct. Sicilians were hungry, so Social Worker Dolci became a hunger striker. When they were sick, he converted a three-room apartment into a clinic. To give jobs to jobless fishermen and farm hands, Dolci set them to work on one of the island's tattered roads in the hope that the government would pay them later; he was arrested and convicted of "invading government ground" (TIME, April 9, 1956). Most recently, in his crusade for decent housing, 33-year...
Bolivia's President Siles once went on a hunger strike to fend off pressures to break his austerity pledge. Said he: "I will never sign a decree assisting inflation." Instead, he forced through a law prohibiting issuance of new currency by the Central Bank. Today, Bolivia seems on the way to sound money...
...production is not only a huge task but an urgent one. From the first luncheon in the Fairmont's ornate Gold Room, speaker after speaker at the San Francisco conference traced the irresistible upsurge of world population and the revolution of rising expectations that has grown from its hunger for a better life (see The Population Explosion). Even for the massive reservoirs of entrepreneurial brains and money represented on Nob Hill, the immensity of the opportunity often paled beside the complexity of the challenge...