Word: manye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Sir Stanley Spencer, 68, British artist who transformed the simple sights of his home town of Cookham into the great events of the Bible in paintings of flat, muted colors ("I saw many burning bushes in Cookham"), borrowed the faces of his neighbors for Biblical characters, and of his...
When Pandora opened the box and loosed upon mankind all the evil gifts of the malevolent Greek pantheon, by Hesiod's account "Hope was the only spirit that stayed there . . . and could not fly forth." According to Kansas' famed Psychiatrist Karl Menninger, hope has stayed there, cowering and...
"Our shelves hold many books now on the place of faith in science and psychiatry, and on the vicissitudes of man's efforts to love and to be loved," Dr. Menninger writes in the American Journal of Psychiatry. "But when it comes to hope, our shelves are bare. The...
Despite the new riches, no one regarded the world through Utopian spectacles in 1959; desperate poverty was still a condition of life in many lands. Nevertheless, even the humblest of nations could at least look ahead to the 1960s with hope. There were two reasons for this. In their new...
One encouraging sign at year's end was that U.S. exports were already on the rise again after their slowdown. Wage costs in foreign nations were also on the rise, narrowing the foreign advantage over the U.S. Now that the alarm has been raised, many a businessman is not...