Word: profound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are times when Rivers seems more whimsical than profound, but neither he nor the paintings he produces could ever be said to be boring. "If your interest is in features and fingernails," says he of his current phase, "the colors you choose will be subjected to that. But when painting a fingernail no longer interests you, then color itself takes over. There is a subordination of subject matter to a kind of force: the force of a red is what I am more curious about now than delineating a nostril...
...Magnificent Seven. The best western so far this year, this film is an impressive and occasionally profound contemplation of the life of violence...
...great picture-not nearly as good as the Japanese Magnificent Seven (TIME, Dec. 10, 1956), the brilliant episode of chivalry, directed by Japan's Akira (Rashomon) Kurosawa, from which it is adapted. Nevertheless, it is the best western released so far in 1960, a skillful, exciting, and occasionally profound contemplation of the life of violence...
...announcement by Pierre Salinger, President-elect Kennedy's Press Secretary, that the private life of the next President will be forbidden territory for reporters, comes as a bitter shock and a profound disappointment...
...Brookings Institution, envisioned it as a supergraduate "capstone to the education al arch of the country." Passionately Objective. Brookings was never quite that under its scholarly first president, Harold G. Moulton. It granted only 74 doctorates before dropping the program in 1936. But its economic research had a profound effect on national policy under both Democratic and Republican administrations. Brookings experts clarified and defined nearly every function of Government, from Indian affairs to forest control. Later they deflated many New Deal ideas, notably the theory that only pump-priming could make the economy grow. During World War II, Brookings went...