Word: oceanic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Free man, you shall always love the sea," wrote Baudelaire. And it was the sea which animated the hand of Lyonel Feininger so long and so well; not the indomitable, raging waters of Baudelaire as much as the deep, impenetrable immensity of Melville's ocean world. More significantly, it was always Feininger's own sea, personal, highly lyrical, and richly controlled...
...comes up Monday noon, the Seawolf will have been below the Atlantic Ocean's surface for exactly 60 days. The submarine sailed on Aug. 5, went down two days later to begin what the Navy then described only as a "routine environmental test...
...choice existed for Henry James, T.S. Eliot and Auden," he writes, and it still exists today, but the ultimate criterion for a permanent ocean hop is neither political nor financial. "If the U.S. were really sitting pretty, as unchallengeably at the peak of its power as England was, say, in 1830, with 50 invulnerable years as Top Nation ahead, then I should passionately envy American writers. But I do not see their position in those terms at all; I believe that essentially we are in the same boat...
...sturdy, white-hulled Columbia was clearly the fastest boat throughout the elimination trials to pick a defender for the America's Cup. Last week she won two of three races from 19-year-old Vim, her final opponent, and the selection committee judged Columbia the gem of the ocean, fit to meet Britain's Sceptre this weekend in the start of the four-out-of-seven series that will be raced alternately over triangular and windward-leeward courses ten miles off Newport...
...entire housing supply. While much of the emergency postwar housing gave sound value, a lot of it was pure junk. In 1952 a congressional committee toured the U.S., found thousands of unhappy home buyers saddled with long-term mortgages on houses with floors that heaved like the ocean in a full gale, doors that would not close, and foundations that had settled away from the baseboard...