Word: present
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although his genius as an exhibitionist has often obscured his real importance as a painter, Dali clearly aims to exhibit many things besides himself. First on his list at present is the problem of finding visual equivalents for new-found scientific truths. To understand both painting and physics is not the same thing as to merge them, but Dali tries, and he is the only major painter making the attempt...
...Present fashion has partly reverted to the archaic, preferring the Kore to the Nike. To devotees of abstract art, the Kore seems the less fussy and closer to the "pure form" of modern sculptors such as Brancusi and Henry Moore. Yet the Kore's abstract balance is physical and intensely feminine too. She bulges the stone, breathing, and smiles from her cliff of self most tenderly. The Nike (Victory) has greatness of another order: she moves like a swirl of gauze and a body both, proudly displaying the lightness of spirit-filled flesh. She is the archaic maid...
...from $24 million in 1955 to $64 million in 1958, has picked up ten companies in three years. This week he bought the eleventh: National Metallizing Corp. of Trenton, N.J., which owns a process to coat paper with metal. Chandler is convinced that the new process is cheaper than present methods of laminating foil to paper, sees a big market for his product in wrappings of all kinds, even though competitors are working on similar processes...
...Standard has issued to buy one company and stock options, could dilute per-share earnings by as much as 35% if converted into common. Chandler expects potential profits from new products to help make up for any dilution. Among them: plastic-coated punch cards that would last longer than present business-machine cards, and paperboard containers for oil. In Chandler's office are six paperboard containers, shaped like milk cartons, which have held oil for a year. Said Chandler: "This company is in the right place at the right time...
...collar workers (25 million to 25.5 million) by 1957, and the trend was accelerated by the recession. Unions have had comparatively little success in recruiting the new army of technical and service workers. If it does not recruit them, says Kassalow, "organized labor would be lucky to maintain its present membership of 17 or 18 million over the next decade. It would then become a very diminished minority...