Word: lightering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best thing about TIME is that it doesn't take all that "urgent and thought-compelling" twaddle so seriously that there isn't room for a little news about the lighter things in life. I sure liked that page-and-a-half spread you gave to that scandal in France about those rich people trying to knock one another off. Oh, those French, eh, Mr. Auer! And I can hardly wait to see how TIME covers that other scandal that broke last week in France about the government officials and the nude dancing girls. I guess the issue...
Ingmar Bergman needs no praise for those Brattle patrons who saw his delightful Smiles of a Summer Night earlier this year. And just as that earlier, lighter masterwork examined the forms and varieties of eros, so The Seventh Seal probes the modes and species of fides. Every form of Christian faith seems to be present here--what Kierkegaard prayed for and what made Nietzsche gnash his teeth. Gunnar Bjornstrand as the jaded, worldly squire voices a despairing stoic atheism that sounds perhaps too contemporary for the middle of the fourteenth century. Nils Poppe as the peasant Jof, on the other...
...will be considerably shorter than present models, with wheelbases ranging from 106 to 113 in. The overhang of 1959-model U.S. cars will be reduced, thus cutting the overall length by 2 to 3 ft. The new cars will be rounded and tucked in. They will also be much lighter. Wide use of aluminum, coupled with a redesigning of thousands of individual parts from bolts to caps, will cut the overall weight to around 2,500 Ibs., almost one-third less than the weights of the 1959 Ford, Chevy and Plymouth. This in turn will mean up to 25 miles...
...volumes as Modern Courtesy, Of Art and Elegance in Charity and Fifty Years of Panache, M. de Fouquières was the city's guide to de rigueur. Unimpeachably masculine (Croix de guerre with citations), he told the dandies of Paris to wear gloves and keep their cigarette-lighter wicks trimmed as acts of thoughtfulness to their ladies. "We must defend Paris," he said, "against the hatless." With full dress there could be no compromise: a dinner jacket was so informal it was a "masterpiece of vulgarity and ugliness." The live-modern age could not be forgiven because...
...industry's big push is to warm the severe appearance of much modern furniture by mixing with it oriental lacquered furniture-lighter woods plus new materials and vivid fabrics. The industry is also bringing out a whole new line of "wall-hung" units-bookcases, hi-fi cabinets, cupboards, etc. Even children's furniture is being upgraded after 30 years of standard pink and blue finishes. Big Manhattan, Chicago and Detroit stores are laying in heavy stocks of specially designed children's furniture, scaled down in size from adult pieces...