Word: know
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which must release the correction to all news agencies but may not require its publication. All in all, U.S. Delegate Erwin D. ("Spike") Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor, thought the treaty a beginning step that would strengthen "agreed principles based on the right of the people to know...
Artist Bishop freely admits her subject-matter is limited. "I try to limit content, to limit everything," she explains, "in order to get down to something in my work. You know, I'm glad this isn't one of the great periods of art. I could never paint a great subject, and the fun about painting today is that we don't have to. We can paint the little things, things that perhaps no one noticed before...
Like Birds. One such "little thing" in Bishop's new show was a picture of a girl bending to drink from a fountain in Union Square. "I've got pages & pages of sketches of men and girls drinking out of that fountain," she says. "You know, most people lift one leg when they drink. Some put their hands behind them. Others embrace the bowl. But it's so quick and nice - nice-like birds, they drink and fly away - and I have a devil of a time. You could easily pose a person there, of course...
...characters in Philip Wylie's new novel include: the amiable madam of a New York call-house, two warm-hearted call-house girls, a nuclear physicist whose atomic know-how is equaled only by his abysmal no-know-how where dames are concerned, a woman who has run away from her botanist husband because she caught him kissing another man in the conservatory, and a Wylie version of Jesus Christ, his name abbreviated to Chris, who shows up in a persistent but inconclusive dream about a B-29 on an A-bomb run. Most of the action takes place...
...crowd, people chatted quietly. Old Man Warner snorted when he heard that folks in the north village were thinking of giving up the lottery. "Pack of crazy fools . . . nothing's good enough for them. Next thing you know, they'll be wanting to go back to living in caves...