Word: ivans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...face upraised, chiseled out of rough grey limestone. Sculptor Lauck took several months to turn it out; his other duties keep him from working full-time with hammer & chisel. But he has been chipping away, off & on, for 20 years, and he has studied with such famed sculptors as Ivan Mestrovic and Carl Milles. Today Lauck exhibits his peaceful religious statues from time to time, but mostly he contents himself with teaching Notre Dame students...
...tireless grin. He opens most shows with a two-minute monologue he writes himself, follows it with a seven-minute skit featuring such regulars as Announcer Durward Kirby, Dancer Ray Malone and Singers Denise Lor and Ken Carson. Once every week, Moore brings on Naturalist Ivan Sanderson and his menagerie of chunga birds and false palm-civets. For his closing spot, he keeps on hand a stock of carefully timed jokes and comment (ranging from 20 seconds to 2½ minutes...
...criminals sought first and foremost to undermine the health of Soviet military leaders, to put them out of commission and weaken the country's defenses . . . But their arrest upset their fiendish plans." Among other intended victims, according to Moscow: Marshal Alexander Vasilevsky, Minister of War; Marshal Ivan Konev, commander of Soviet army ground forces; Admiral Gordei Levchenko, Deputy Minister of the Navy; and General Sergei Shtemenko, chief of army staff...
...simply too hardboiled. Echoing Matthew Arnold on Keats, Biographer Johnson says of Dickens: "He is with Shakespeare." But Shakespeare's is the company Dickens rarely keeps. Shakespeare's characters grow; Dickens' characters only have Scroogian turnabouts. Where a Hamlet, a Captain Ahab or an Ivan Karamazov helps the reader to know himself, most of Dickens' fabulous folk reveal only their inimitable selves. They teach little, but, with the help of Dickens' beguiling gusto, they still make good reading and pretty good movies...
...Buick, said General Manager Ivan L. Wiles, put "more important styling and engineering changes" in its 1953 model than in any for the last 25 years. Its powerful new V-8 engine boosts gasoline mileage by some 6%; it has an improved Dynaflow transmission for faster acceleration of the car from a standing start to 30 m.p.h. Buick also announced a few modest price cuts...