Word: productive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...friendly. He asked me a few questions and then handed me a bust-by another sculptor." Rudier worked long hours forming the mold of sand, tapping, carving and measuring it to exact proportions, finally cast the sculpture in a single piece of bronze. "When I returned with the finished product, Rodin looked at it for a long time and caressed it with his fingers. All he said was 'excellent.'" But from that moment on, until the sculptor's death in 1917, Rudier was the only caster allowed to touch a Rodin statue...
...fellow practitioners is a kit of writer's tools that many a more important novelist would be glad to borrow from. His writing is clean as a whistle, economical without being starved for words. He can get suspense without straining for it, because it is less the product of plot mechanics than of atmosphere and contending personalities...
Like many another U.S. defense problem, the stay-downers are also a product of the Administration's muscle-cutting policy before Korea. Lacking funds, limited in the planes it could order, the Air Force had trained only 3,620 new pilots when the war broke out. As a result, 80% of the Air Force's 46,000 pilots today are reservists. Their average age is 31 (compared with 22½ during World War II); attrition because of age, physical disability and other legitimate reasons for grounding the reserve flyers is running at more than 2,500 badly needed...
...average Hollywood producer makes about two pictures a year, but last year Goldstein made 19. He runs his projects at Universal-International studios like a factory. He approves the basic script idea, buys the production tools, then lets his workmen bring out the product. Often he will give his writer the summary of an idea. Then, "We start tomorrow," he will say, pulling on his long cigar. "I'll see you at the preview...
...American male. But, as is the inevitable lot of those who would scoff at the goddess Venus, he fell victim to the very thing he fought . . . This great satirist now gambols about his new-found Elysian fields along with the movie moguls and advertisers, caught up in the perfumed product of their own imagination and in the daily propitiating of the Great American Female . . . Those of us left behind can only mourn his memory and look for a new champion to replace the great Al Capp...