Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blame James Jones for his new book [Jan. 13]? He's just been sitting in a little Illinois town putting his thoughts on paper-like many other inept writers. Blame the present sad state of American letters in which publishers print manuscripts of such caliber; moving-picture companies buy them at a cost of millions. It is scant comfort to professional writers like myself-who beat our brains out, trying to peddle manuscripts of more or less reasonable value in a market without values-to know that Some Came Running from Here to Eternity...
...humanly possible. Menderes adamantly refuses to delegate any authority at all. often seems to be trying to run the country singlehanded. "If the Hilton Hotel needs foreign exchange to buy toilet paper.'' says one longtime Western resident of Turkey. ''Menderes probably has to approve...
...Chicago Theological Seminary, the Herald last year leaped into the fight that saved Architect Frank Lloyd Wright's famed Robie House from demolition to make way for a dormitory. As circulation hit 8,500-350% more than the old Herald-Publisher Sagan was able to say: "The paper is worth ten times what we paid...
...until two years after he first set pencil to paper did Ingres, then 72, interrupt the honeymoon of his second marriage to complete the painting. Every line of the light blue silk dress, each tuck in the dark blue chair covering, every fold of the yellow stole is lovingly recorded. The play of light in the ruffles and ribbons, the gleam of the rope of huge pearls at the wrist, and the light reflections on the pendant brooch are skillfully worked through. But Ingres' most consummate draftsmanship went into modeling the head, with its smoothly coiffured hair, its serene...
Away with Illusions. Wilson's reign has had its dark spots. The student paper is still automatically censored because it came out against the Harris natural-gas bill, and the case of Coed Barbara Louise Smith-the soprano who was removed from the leading role in Dido and Aeneas because some legislators objected to the fact that she is a Negro (TIME, May 20) -still rankles. But in general, Logan Wilson has, fortunately, no illusions about how far his university must go. "I think," says he, "we need frankly to face up to the fact that our competitive academic...