Word: lying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After 23 years in Congress, South Carolina's tall, grey-thatched James Prioleau Richards, 61, looks longingly towards the end of the year, when he will relinquish his House seat, go back to his 500-acre cattle farm at Heath Springs (pop. 700), there "lie down on my back and look up at the moon and wonder what's up there." Last week, while the State Department gasped and the Defense Department groaned, Dick Richards decided the Administration was reaching for that same moon and asking too many sixpence in foreign aid next year...
...major is led at the end to a military funeral, where, after listening to the "unctuous" chaplain, he and his sergeant exchange an almost mute confidence. Everything but God has been destroyed, the sergeant seems to say. "It would be unthinkable," replies the major, "if that were a lie...
...Theme and Changes for Harpsichord (1953). This original work, with its jagged theme and unusual, repetitive harmonies and textures, is in the form of a French ouverture. The varied coloristic potentialities of the harpsichord are well utilized. So rich are some of the sonorities produced that the instrument sounds lie an organ, and, in certain harmonically brilliant sections, there is a suggestion of the contemporary French organ school of composition. Although the repetitive element in the style is sometimes overdone, the work as a whole is balanced and dramatic...
...artist's function is to be aware of life and conditions of the times." He still satirizes the blustering Senators and the martini-drinking set that crowds the chic exhibit halls. On the other hand, he retains compassion for the little east side tailor who emigrated to this country lie his own grandfather. Yet, both in moods of satire and compassion his color has become more strident. "I am having a ball with color," he says, and this above all seems to be his concession to the Formalistic art of our time...
There are Polish apples unobtainable by Polish children . . . there are boys forced to lie, there are girls forced to lie, there are people who are blackened and spat at, there are people who are robbed in the streets . . . by thugs for whom legal definitions are sought...