Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kokoschka still thinks that art is in the artist's eye, and terms his school of painting (where he teaches students from 22 nations) the "school of vision." He scorns modern painters as "decorators for wallpaper, printed silk or men's ties" because "they do not use their eyes any more." He also unhesitatingly claims second sight. When he painted the portrait of Professor Auguste Forel, famous Swiss psychiatrist, Kokoschka made his subject look 20 years older, with his right hand drooping strangely, his right eye blind. Forel and his family protested that the portrait was a poor...
...once a sitting room for the adjoining ballroom-sized office that Ochs used. A polite perfectionist, Sulzberger plans no major switches in the Times's tried formula. "We're always making minor changes-we never try to startle." Major future project is the erection of a modern new home for the paper on a four-block-long frontage on Manhattan's West Side. Already begun, its first building will be completed in 1959, will cost some $20 million...
...took over the ailing, family-owned New York Herald Tribune in 1955 with the triple-threat title of publisher-president-editor. "Brownie" Reid set out to counter the Times's thoroughness with livelier stories, editorial fun and promotion games. But heading out in the new direction, the Modern Republican Trib slumped badly, last September went to its good friend, Modern Republican John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, 53, currently Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, for a reported $2,000,000 loan...
...sort of rich man's Fu Manchu, Dr. No is one of the less forgettable characters in modern fiction. He is 6 ft. 6, and looks like "a giant venomous worm wrapped in grey tin-foil." For hands he has "articulated steel pincers," which he habitually taps against his contact lenses, making a "dull ting." Dr. No's hobby is torture ("I am interested in pain"). Bond survives Dr. No's inventive obstacle course from electric shocks to octopus hugs, buries his tormentor alive under a small mountain of guano, and rescues the girl from a fate...
Caldwell, however, did not show much respect for contemporary society. "People today are a lot softer than they were 25 years ago." Caldwell, who has lived in all parts of the country, finished his indictment of modern America with a flat "I would never live in Scarsdale...