Word: ikons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same time, Rouault's turbulent mysticism never looked better. Three Clowns, almost an ikon in spiritual dignity as well as in symbolic analogy, imparts to its rich, warm tones an austerity as breathtaking as its intense emotion. And Autumn, more soul than landscape, reveals perhaps even more the spirit of an old master than a modern...
Last year, the Oberkochen plant, plus the new one at Stuttgart, turned out $24 million worth of lenses, surveying instruments, microscopes and other goods, half of which were sold abroad; the Zeiss Ikon (camera) division at Stuttgart, turning out everything from a $15 box camera to the $300 Contax, was able to declare an 8% dividend...
POLAND-No. 1 Communist when the Cominform was born was Wladyslaw Gomulka, 47, the "little Stalin" whose portrait was the political ikon on every Polish street corner; was supreme for three postwar years, then began a Pauker-like fall in 1948. Castigated by the party for "alien opportunistic ideology," and though he admitted his errors, was removed as party secretary. Present state: in prison...