Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seurat's paintings [Jan. 20] reminded me of a famed pathologist at the University of Michigan who occasionally gave lectures on "pathology in art," whimsically pointing out the "acres and acres of adipose tissue" painted by the Flemish artists. With this in mind, Seurat's immaculate technique, when applied to the representation of nudes, is suggestive of the measles, or worse, smallpox, or even the French pox derived from the older days of the bordellos of the Left Bank. These features of speculative pathology are, of course, lost in the Seurat landscapes...
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...romantic and starry night like this, it's hard to keep your mind on your business," said Steve Allen, sticking to the script as he peered into the Havana sky last week. The sky was overcast and black, and a chilly wind sent wavelets across the swimming pool at the Havana Riviera Hotel, where NBC was beaming its first major live production over the horizon from Cuba...
Psychology & Reserves. Actually, bankers viewed the discount cut as a cautious psychological move, like the cut in stock margin requirements (TIME, Jan. 27), rather than any real easing of credit. Said Board Chairman John Sibley of the Trust Co. of Georgia: "The impact is on the public mind, not the economy as such." Over the last few months, the Fed's only real attempt to pump more credit into the economy has been to allow bank reserves (and thus their lending ability) to increase by some $500 million, partly through open market purchases of Treasury securities...
...brokerage firm with an old friend. By picking up securities that looked worthless to most people, then stepping in to run the properties involved, he added another $5,000,000 to his bank roll by 1937. But Young was not merely after money. "Anyone who has an active mind must keep it engaged," he said, "and I want mine engaged in important instead of minor things...