Word: paged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seldom in so short a span do newspapers have to grapple with such complex legal issues as those in the Page One headlines last week. They ranged from the indictment of Russia's rape of an entire nation to the fine points of Supreme Court concern for the rights of individuals. Abstruse and remote though most of them might be in their philosophical underpinnings, these topics aroused Americans because they converged on the central theme of freedom and justice under law-whether in Japan or Germany, whether for Hungarians or Americans...
...Gogh's artistic progress. The catalyst that changed Mondrian was his discovery of cubism. (He simplified not only his style but also his name-from Mondriaan.) While he had previously drawn trees that were obviously trees, he now produced the segmented Apple Tree in Bloom (see color page), a lyric, rhythmic design of orchestrated nuances and subtle harmonies. Even more dramatic evidence of his progression lies in his rare self-portraits: in 1900 he saw himself as a religion-seeker, with deep, glowing eyes (a pose that later so distressed him that he threatened to destroy the work with...
...canvas composed of only a white background with two black lines. He was moving toward more complicated designs when, with World War II inevitable, he went first to London, then in 1940 to New York, where he finished his study in balanced imbalance, Place de la Concorde (see color page). Entranced by the glitter of Manhattan, he then set to work on his last two major paintings, Broadway Boogie-Woogie and the unfinished Victory Boogie-Woogie, which sparkled with segmented, syncopated color. They made a bright closing movement to Piet Mondrian's multi-variations within the rectangle, a constant...
Last week they were told for fair. "Gambling, widespread and important, is back at the old stands in Jefferson Parish!" cried the front page of the New Orleans States. "It is spreading like an epidemic." Beneath the banner headlines ran the byline of the stranger at the bar: Edwin Strickland, 39, the balding bachelor reporter of the Birmingham News, who has made a career of sniffing out crime and corruption, in 1954 played a major role in exposing the blend of sex, graft and murder in Phenix City, Ala. (TIME, June...
What distinguishes all this from other purposeful literary nightmares that professed to see the ghost of fascism on the American scene during the '30s is that West brought enough invention to one page for most novelists to spread thin over a book, and a style as lean and resourceful as a hungry wildcat. Above all, West was not parochial, did not advocate political or social systems. He was one of those men in whom pity must take the form of anger, but his anger was not anything as simple as anti-American or anti-Babbitt; it was anti-human...