Word: mind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...affairs, said Acheson, by ratifying the North Atlantic pact, and by passing the $1,130,000,000 arms program to back it up, before adjourning. But Dean Acheson also knew that there was another explanation of Russia's seeming docility in Europe. The Russian bear had his mind on other game...
...perfect seriousness, Rose speaks of creating a "new medium of artistic expression." Half abstract and half symbolic, his new medium requires a highly sophisticated audience, appeals more to the mind than to the eye. He uses light bulbs in his religious paintings, Rose explains, "to represent the eternal light of Jesus Christ by something which people think of when they think of light. I wanted to get away from the historical representation of the Crucifixion to emphasize that it is something still happening...
Under Minnie's somewhat frenzied exterior, however, a calm business mind functions. She engages all of the stadium's stars herself, carries on a private little war with the weather, and sometimes the weatherman, trying to determine whether to call a concert off or take a chance. She cheerfully admits: "It's too much of a job for an old crow like me." And then cheerfully adds that she has not the faintest notion of giving...
Dateline: Philadelphia. The new editor was almost his exact opposite as a personality. Sober, earnest Irving Dilliard, 44, an ex-Nieman fellow, has a schoolteacher's manner and a historian's mind. Dilliard is an expert on the U.S. Supreme Court, a pen-pal of several justices, a contributor to the Dictionary of American Biography. The P-D distributed 70,000 reprints of his "news dispatches" (datelined Philadelphia, 1787) on the adoption of the U.S. Constitution. Mild-mannered Irving Dilliard can also write hard-hitting editorials. He wrote the celebrated "contempt of court" editorial, pounded out many...
Ordained to Praise. The woodcuts, mostly book illustrations and chapter headings, betrayed Gill's lack of academic training: the drawing, especially of human figures, was awkward, stiff and anatomically inept. But the prints also showed the order and clarity of Gill's mind and the precision of his craft; they had the decisive simplicity that characterized all his work. Beyond that, even his woodcuts of devils seemed to attest Gill's joy in life -and therefore to praise God. "Man," Gill wrote, "is that part of creation which can praise his creator. Because...