Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nowhere did American freedom of thought have greater impact than in the presence of the show's contentious curator, Manhattan Art Dealer Edith Gregor Halpert. Last month Mrs. Halpert had said some harsh things about Eisenhower's reservations concerning the exhibition ("Some people think the President's paintings aren't so good either. It's like Truman saying modern art resembles ham and eggs"). One Soviet critic jeeringly asked her what had happened to the woman who criticized the President's judgment. "I am that woman," she said. The Russian was incredulous...
Next to the impact of the Nixon trip on U.S.-Soviet relations, the hottest topic of Washington talk last week was the impact of the Nixon trip on U.S. 1960 presidential politics. And whether they were glad or sad about it, the politicos agreed that Richard Nixon's performance had trimmed his bright prospects in glowing red neon...
...himself waves the new banner of forgetfulness, or "non-history": "Associating present sensations with past experience is normal and even necessary in everyday living, but such associations are poisonous in creating art. When the process of association fills the initial intuition with the pastness of dead data-stuff the impact of this intuition is reduced to that of general experience." intellectual confusion prevailing among painters springs partly from "critical permissiveness": "Our esthetic yardstick is geared largely to the novel. We expect the same kind of dramatic discoveries from our artists that we do from our scientists. The wide-open mind...
...economic indicators that have the biggest personal impact on the U.S. workingman-employment, work week and salaries-are steadily moving upward. Last week the Labor Department reported that employment in June climbed to 67,342,000. the highest level in U.S. history and a gain of 4,600,000 since February...
...Crisis. The effects of the strike landed nowhere with more personal impact than on the Steelworkers themselves, tramping the streets just as it was announced that the nation's employment had hit an alltime high. Many workers faced out-and-out hardship, but most had a nest egg and meat in the freezer. Workers got one to two weeks' pay before the mills closed (average: $125 a week before deductions ). still have another two to three weeks' vacation wages coming. Dave McDonald halted the pay of 1,000 union officers, including his own $50,000 a year...