Word: ponds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...knows," he wonders out loud as he looks out of his office window across the rolling Massachusetts campus, "may-be someday a cure for cancer will be discovered down there on the other side of the pond (where the University's science buildings are located). After all, streptomycin was found at Rutgers, not Princeton," he says. "A man with brains can go a long way on the campus of a land-grant college," the President adds."There is a good deal lost for the college administrator in not forcing himself to spend time with the students," says President Mather. Here...
...century, Tanguy came to the U.S. in 1939, married New York-born Painter Sage, became an American citizen. Their solidly luxurious country house in Woodbury, Conn, is completely unlike the artistic "house"' of Breton's poem. There are a stone terrace built by Tanguy (a do-ityourself fan), a pond with decoy ducks, and a rowboat for "harvesting the bull-rushes." Artist Tanguy works in a made-over barn. As he describes it, he simply stands before his easel and begins to paint?without plan, without thought of what he is doing. Says he: "I am still the prisoner...
...Nora, rebels against the doll's house, so Author Godden (The River, Black Narcissus) treats her to a high old time as the mascot of a bunch of boys who send her aloft with a toy balloon, spin her on a Catherine wheel and race her across a pond in a toy yacht...
...nostalgic, tender scenes with an old-fashioned sentiment about them reminiscent of the designs in petit-point footstool covers. Harmony shows two blonde maidens sitting together on a fringed sofa, both playing the same guitar. Prelude is an idyllic rural scene, with meadows, trees and a clear blue pond; a graceful boy and girl are about to eat a picnic lunch. In The Portrait, Kasiulis mildly lampoons his own profession he shows a grave, bearded artist painting a mirror-like portrait of a model gaily dressed in red and green. All of Kasiulis' paintings are done in a technique...
...major industry," said Adman Bruce Barton 19 years ago, "has the moral right to allow" itself to be unexplained, misunderstood or publicly distrusted, for by its unpopularity it poisons the pond in which we all must fish." As U.S. industry has outgrown the proprietor-owned and operated companies of old, and as organized labor has gained in strength, more and more corporations have recognized the need for being understood by their employees, stockholders and the public at large. Yet the sad fact is that industry has lost ground in its public-relations campaign...