Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Empty but Outspoken. When they returned to Manhattan, Helen would try to distill her impressions of the real landscapes into abstract canvases structured not by the external reality, but in terms of an internal harmony. "The landscapes were the discipline, the abstracts were the freedom and the joy. Though I enjoyed the discipline, one was confined within a tradition that was déjà vu. For me, just about everything has been said about landscapes, but I don't think everything has been said in terms of colors and shapes...
Highly Suggestible. Once more Duke went to court to ask for a new trial. He produced expert witnesses, such as Dr. Herbert Spiegel of Manhattan (TIME, May 24), who have questioned the accuracy of any testimony given during or after hypnosis. Spiegel said that Caron's desire to cooperate with the Government, along with his own instability-he had tried suicide in his cell -made him a highly suggestible hypnotic subject. For example, Spiegel pointed out, Caron had remembered Miller's license plate only after all of the digits were suggested to him during the sessions. His identification...
Died. John Mason Brown, 68, journalist, drama critic and lecturer; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. The son of a Louisville, Ky., lawyer, Brown was labeled the "Confederate Aristotle" for his self-deprecating wit and tongue-in-cheek pedantry. He was drama critic for the New York Evening Post from 1929 until 1941; after that, his Saturday Review column, "Seeing Things," became a forum for broad commentary. But the theater was always his passion, and in 1963 he quit the Pulitzer jury when the prize was not awarded to Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf...
Mature Mail. Riklis's own managers have already learned how to live with the boss's engaging eccentricities. Chairman Riklis, whose salary came to $379,000 last year, has developed an avid taste for Postimpressionist art; Rapid's mid-Manhattan offices are filled with Fernand Legers, Francis Bacons, Roy Lichtensteins...
...BELOVED Country is still thriving. We make some few concessions to conscience: PBH will send no volunteer teachers to Rhodesia this year and President Goheen of Princeton agreed last month to stop investing in companies whose fortunes fall from South Africa. But the liberal corporatism of Chase Manhattan and Standard Oil still shores up the regime...