Word: productive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...difference between The Last Supper and the greatest of modern photographs is that Da Vinci's painting is a product of the imagination. The picture came from inside Da Vinci, just as Hamlet came from inside Shakespeare. Photographs come from the outside; the camera artist sees something memorable in the world about him, and seizes it from the stream of time into a flat and shadowy sort of permanence. His picture is not so much created as caught. Photography can and often does produce great things without the intercession of genius (many of the finest World War II pictures...
...weapons, "the development and utilization of atomic energy shall, so far as practicable, be directed toward improving the public welfare, increasing the standard of living, strengthening free competition in private enterprise, and promoting world peace." This dream has not come true. Since the high hopes of 1946 the chief product of atomic development, both in the U.S. and abroad, has been an increasing stockpile of increasingly destructive bombs...
...share to buy a half-interest in Reaction Motors, Inc., maker of rocket engines, 32% owned by Laurance Rockefeller. Mathieson, which has just opened a plant to produce hydrazine for rocket fuel, is willing to pay nearly $1,000,000 to get a steady market for the product...
...cover is a shocker: a much-worse-than-usual product of poor idea, poor draftsmanship and poor choice of colors. An attempt to capture the fall atmosphere, it succeeds only in being drab...
Textile Comeback. By a bleak austerity program, Wood and his associates hope to boost Korea's gross national product from $65 per capita to more than $100 per capita in five years. But the ROK army will be a steady drain on the economy, and some are doubtful that an austerity program will work...