Word: objections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bell's mother was killed in a bombing raid in April 1945 while he was only two miles away, a Signal Corps officer attached to General Mac Arthur's staff. President Magsaysay looked at the distant mountains and said quietly that he did not object to Bell's claim. NEWLY arrived from Germany, Correspondent Bell was making the first circuit of his new beat last week. Before he moved to Bonn in 1954, he had covered an area of the Middle East encompassing roughly 5,500,000 square miles (area of the U.S.: 3,022,387 square...
...tiny eyes twinkling under winglike eyebrows, have a lot to learn from Zen: "They go round and round on the surface of the mind without stopping. But Zen goes deep." The main difficulty Westerners have with Zen, says Suzuki, is their habit of thinking dialectically-either-or. sub ject-object, positive-negative. Zen sees only one instead of two. "Westerners analyze things," says Dr. Suzuki, "but in the East we see a thing all at once and with our whole bodies, instead of just our minds...
...inspiring kind of abstraction in Monet's late work. Museum of Modern Art Director Alfred Barr admits that he once thought Monet "just a bad example." today has deep admiration for the vigor of his brushwork, his near-abstract paintings of nature, and his suggestive ambiguity of object and reflection.* Putting the final stamp of approval on Monet for the avant-garde is Manhattan Critic Clement Greenberg, who in praising Monet's "free, calligraphic brush-work and loose, tonal delineation of form," now confirms that much modern U.S. painting needs a new name: "abstract impressionism...
Ever since the 1957 autos swooshed onto the market, with all of their fins, fantails and flanges, they have been the object of an extraordinary amount of comment. Some of it has been admiring, some has been funny, and some-from motorists who want more fish and less fin -has been downright bitter. Last week in the New Republic (circ. 29,453), Cartoonist Robert Osborn had his say (see cuts) with sharp effect...
...usual stream of brass moved through the Pentagon concourse last week, top Air Force men occasionally broke formation and glided unobtrusively into a suite of neat, quiet rooms. Their object: a thorough hangar check for heart disease. Since 1950, more than 50 middle-aged Air Force executives-from the Secretary down-have undergone regular scrutiny by a team of Air Force specialists under Colonel Marshall E. Groover. The medicos can point to a fair record for the group: only 19 heart attacks, including six deaths (among men who did not follow recommendations). But the Air Force program may prove most...