Word: olympian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though he is often Olympian in his thunderbolt pronunciamentos, calling for ''total, implacable war," face to face Castro is strictly realistic. Questioned about the possibility that Batista might crush the rebels' proposed general strike, he said: "If Batista loses, he loses for good; if I lose, I will just start over again." If he wins, Castro says, he proposes freer labor unions, a crackdown on corruption and punishment for government "criminals"-including bringing Batista to book. These measures imply a great deal of control over Cuba's future by Fidel Castro. He denies all presidential...
...After warming up with an easy 1,500-meter freestyle victory at the A.A.U. national indoor swimming championships in New Haven, Australian Olympian Murray Rose, 18, felt so relaxed that he forgot to count the laps when he kicked off next night in the 22O-yd. grind. With only 20 yds. left to go, Murray, now a Southern California freshman, suddenly realized the race was almost over. He thrashed up to full speed, just managed to come up from third to touch out his countryman and collegemate, Jon Henricks. in a meet-record...
...Sticking to the same old style-loafing off the pace until the last lap and then spurting to the tape-Villanova's Irish Olympian Ron Delany stuck to the same old habit of winning mile races. Ron opened the 1958 track season at the Massachusetts K. of C. Games by coming home six yards in front of Chicago's Phil Coleman in a Games record...
...outstanding interpreters of the U.S. scene achieved their insights by imposing a meaning-democratic, economic, social -on the rich diversity of America. Lerner argues merely that the diversity is the meaning, itself an insight but scarcely a major or original one. Trying valiantly to be Olympian, Lerner has suppressed his more obvious former prejudices-except perhaps the prejudice in favor of the strangely arid, yet emotionally pompous sociologist's view of man. The trouble is that little except diligence seems left of Pundit Lerner once the prejudice is gone. His middle-of-the-road stance leaves him not only...
...those who liked romantic landscapes, Thomas Gainsborough borrowed the techniques of Rubens, but filled his canvases not with figures from Olympian allegory but the workaday life of English villages, to create a kind of Arcadia with a British accent. George Stubbs, Britain's finest horse painter, turned out landscapes populated with jockeys, grooms, owners and thoroughbred racers that not even hard-riding country squires found it possible to fault. One of Stubbs's best, Gimcrack with a Groom, shows Lord Bolingbroke's small, dark grey champion (27 firsts in 35 starts) being groomed (at left) and winning...