Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ensor's story is the story of an artist rebuffed who turned misanthrope. "All rules, all canons of art," he said in his mature misanthropy, "vomit death." He dressed his subjects in leering masks, pitted them in futile struggles against each other. Even his own family was not proof against his scorn. In The Artist's Mother in Death, he stretched his mother's gaunt, grey-faced corpse ironically alongside a menacing array of medicine bottles. Although he never left Belgium, Ensor's pictures helped set off detonations all over Europe. "I indicated all the modern...
...Kitty. To any visiting clergyman, of whatever denomination, Ford would say: "Well, now, you've got the best religion in the world." This gave rise to reports that he leaned toward various faiths, but, Bennett says, Ford had "his own private religion." He believed strongly in reincarnation. His proof, says Bennett, was simple. Pointing out that chickens, which used to run in front of autos and get killed, now headed for the side of the road, Ford said: "That chicken has learned, because it has been hit in the [behind] in a previous life...
...tail assembly of the Reindeer, a new transatlantic plane, will snap off from metal fatigue after 1,400 flying hours. In a trance of pure science, he is unperturbed by the fact that Reindeers already in passenger service will reach the estimated breaking point long before his laboratory proof can be ready...
According to the Autobiography, smalltown Dr. Williams and Poet Williams with his arty New York friends never got in each other's way. The doctor insists that he fed raw material to the writer, but the proof is plain that the writer (yanking out his typewriter to slap down a few sentences before the doctor's phone rang again) never got the material into satisfying shape. Williams' first books were privately printed, sold not at all and were usually bought up by Writer Williams with the money Dr. Williams passed him. A nonintellectual, he says, he made...
...Proof to Come. So far, the Lawrence tube has been demonstrated only to a few scientists and newsmen. The tube shows color all right, but the quality is not quite up to the older systems. This may be because the most advanced tube built so far is a hand-built laboratory model that still has bugs...