Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britain's Political Quarterly, Dr. Jacob Bronowski, of the British National Coal Board, tries to explain why scientists are viewed with suspicion by most nonscientists. "The scientist," says Bronowski, "is not only disliked, but also distrusted." Governments treat the scientist as "indispensable, but unreliable, a hangdog hangman who has the bad manners to be good at war work and the impertinence to find it distasteful. The public thinks that he has no conscience, and his security officer fears that he has two consciences . . . He is unhappy between his scientific creed and his social loyalty: between, that is, the long...
...seaside resort of Blackpool in industrial Lancashire, Soviet Ambassador Jacob A. Malik found an unlikely path to the heart of the British masses. He pulled a silver-handled switch, turning on 450,000 colored lights that run for seven miles and cause illuminated tableaux, moving figures and patriotic portraits to glitter brilliantly against a background of 50 miles of electric bulbs. The lights are the pride of the working class of Lancashire, and the wily Soviet ambassador praised lights, people, town, county, and even allowed that the celebration was not unlike certain Soviet celebrations, before crying, "Long live light...
...House of Commons into cheers by announcing that Russia's chubby gold-dust twins, Khrushchev and Bulganin, would pay an official (not a ceremonial) visit to Britain next spring. Eden predicted "valuable discussions" in the course of this "immensely important event." In the diplomatic gallery, Russian Ambassador Jacob Malik smiled down appreciatively. The British plan to call a conference of the Commonwealth Prime Ministers beforehand, so as to be able to talk to the Russians in the name of all the Queen's subjects...
Britain's gruff, Manhattan-born Sculptor Sir Jacob Epstein, 74, returned to his native island for a brief visit, sallied through an outdoor show of the Sculptors Guild with all the verve of a bull in a statuary shop. Suspiciously eying some nondescript, nonobjective works, Sir Jacob reissued one of his favorite dicta: "I don't like abstract art of any kind, by any artist. Imaginative realism is what I like, not photographic realism." Then he gazed skeptically at a welded bronze piece, managed to choke out a noncommittal "Novel." But it reminded him of the "stovepipes" turned...
Marriage Revealed. Sir Jacob Epstein, 76, famed New York City-born British sculptor, knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1954; and Mrs. Kathleen Garman, 50, his sometime secretary for 30 years, model for many of his most famous statues (e.g., The Girl with the Gardenias); both for the second time (his first wife died in 1947) ; in London; on July...