Word: looks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were other items on the agenda: a new hemispheric charter, the colonies question, a joint military staff committee. But now that economic debate was knocked in the head, it began to look as though the conference could handle them all in much less time than originally planned. At week's end, some of the delegates were even talking about getting up to New York for the U.N. General Assembly's Palestine session on April 16; the more conservative guessed they would adjourn...
...children learn to live, afterward that they should learn to know. That they should know less and want more. That they should learn less and think more. That they should know less and feel more. That they should have more time for well-conducted animal spirits. That they should look at and admire the sun, moon, stars, flowers, trees, birds and butterflies...
...Lake Success, N.Y. appeared scholarly Kung Teh-cheng, 28, for a look at U.N. headquarters. He proved to be the great-great-(to the 77th generation )grandson of Confucius, in the U.S. for conversations with U.S. scholars. To the press, Kung said of U.N.: his ancestor would have okayed the general idea...
...results were varied and poetic as they were abstract: he painted the sea to look like a flight of cold, curling steps, and made forests echo the architecture of cathedrals. During World War II he based one exultant canvas on the vapor trails of bombers and fighters overhead, and another, gloomy one, on a moonlit junkyard swimming with wrecked planes. When he was dying, at 57, he painted sunflowers, which turn their yellow disks to the slow geometric...
...Geneva's stately League of Nations palace, biggest building in Switzerland, the United Nations held its biggest international conference-on the world's press. Three hundred and fifty delegates from 67 nations (including 55 U.N. members) could look out last week at lofty, snowcapped peaks as they argued about lofty principles for world freedom of the press. As usual when good, bad & indifferent fellows get together, not all the debates were on an Olympian plane; there was much bitter name-calling about press warmongering, censorship, monopoly and suppression...