Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conant has never been easy to ignore for long. Beginning with his first year as Harvard's president (TIME, Feb. 5, 1934), through Harvard's tercentenary (TIME, Sept. 28, 1936), through postwar revamping of Harvard's curriculum (TIME, Sept. 23, 1946), Conant has been on TIME'...
For Eisenhower, the return to Europe was an occasion of deep sentiment, and more than once, newsmen thought they saw the trace of tears in his eyes. But the meaning of Ike's trip went far beyond his personal feeling for Europe, or its feeling for him. In the...
Standing side by side in an open-top black Mercedes-Benz, the statesmen rolled off on the 22-mile drive into town. It took them 1 hr. 40 min. Church bells pealed, car horns honked, railroad whistles shrieked. Boys in Lederhosen, overalled factory workers, student nurses in starched blue uniforms...
The Heel of a Shoe. The woodprints that flourished in 17th-19th century Japan were called Ukiyo-e, meaning "Picture of the Passing World." They were just that: pictures of solemn actors, sprightly geishas, idyllic landscapes. Japan's modern wood-printers turned to semiabstract compositions, employ many techniques known...
Folly's Power. Pharaoh's court inevitably degenerates; one of his weak, precocious daughters dies, and his beautiful sister-bride Nefertiti becomes half-blind with trachoma. By the gentle glowing phosphorescence of decay, Stacton's characters search for some meaning to life. Such a unicorn hunt cannot...