Word: pendulums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beniamino Placido, Italian member of the International Seminar, throws out his arm to reinforce his words. From his hand a forgotten book-bag swings like an over-wrought pendulum...
Last week, in California's $35,000 Bing Crosby tournament, Oregon's Bob Duden, 42, gave golfers something new to discuss. A little-known pro who has never won a major tournament, Duden uses a bent-shafted pendulum putter that he swings between his legs like a croquet mallet, in the same manner once espoused by a Mickey Finn comic strip character and hopeless duffer named Duffy. But for Duden the croquet stroke works fine. At the Monterey Peninsula Country Club, he birdied five of the last six holes for a third-round 67 that suddenly shot...
...years now, Aaron Bohrod has been biding his time, waiting for the day when the dazzle of abstract expressionism will die away and large numbers of people will appreciate his resolutely realistic paintings of symbol-laden still life. His wait may be ending. The pendulum of public taste started to swing back toward the figure, and words like "realism." "craftsman ship" and "beauty" are appearing again in art criticism. A show of what Bohrod has been doing while he waited opened last week in Chicago, and 20 of the still lifes on view-most no bigger than a phone book...
American landscape painter, and longtime (1939-49) president of the National Academy of Design who guided the institution down a careful academic path, arguing that "the Academy is like a pendulum to a clock-it assures a rational, regular, orderly progress. It has no room for experimentalists. The Academy can afford to wait"; in Mannhattan...
Neck & Neck. The pendulum seems to be swinging toward the Liberals. The question now is whether it will swing all the way. Diefenbaker, who won a sweeping electoral victory in 1958, holds 203 of the 265 seats in Parliament. His Tories could now lose 70 seats, and he would still have a majority. The Liberals, who have only 51 seats, and hold not one single seat in a province west of Ontario, could pick up 81 more seats and still not be able to form a government. As of last week, when a generally listless campaign came awake with lively...