Word: quick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Quick-witted and active, the Etruscans loved motion in their art, depicted goats bounding, dancers leaping, warriors with lances poised. Mortuary figures gesture and smile; even the sticklike figures (see opposite), which ancient Romans hoarded by the thousands, stride and posture in space like the armature-thin figures of present-day Paris Sculptor Alberto Giacometti. Sorceress with Snake becomes almost as thin as her emblem and as attenuated as a figure by El Greco...
After World War II Thomas moved into international Rotary as a director, won quick recognition as an articulate Rotary spokesman and idea man. As Rotary's president, he will devote his time to developing more "people-to-people contact" among nations. Says he: "There is a tremendous area for the development of friendship and good will on a personal basis-something no government can accomplish. We should not be concerned with the techniques of peace, but with the will to peace...
...July 6, 1952, Oregon's' quick-minded, erratic Republican Senator Wayne Morse boarded the Chesapeake & Ohio's Capitol Limited, rode to Chicago to take his place among Republican dignitaries at the national nominating convention. Six days later, his feelings hurt because nobody at the convention had paid him much attention, he rode back to Washingtonton the same train, no longer a Republican. In October he made it official, declared himself an "Independent." Two years later, the Independent Party having picked up no followers, Morse declared himself a Democrat, was re-elected to the Senate...
...ritual dance at Geneva had become a deadly bore. Dwight Eisenhower said last week that the Geneva talks had not yet made enough progress to justify a summit conference. Nikita Khrushchev was just as candid about the lack of progress as he arrived home from a quick tour of two of the most lackluster outposts of his empire, Albania and Hungary. He was still talking darkly of establishing rocket bases in Albania and Bulgaria if Italy and Greece went through with their plans to accept U.S. missiles...
Freshened Minds. Founded in 1930 by a crusty, quick-tempered high school principal, the sect seeks to annihilate all other religions and to establish Soka Gakkai (literal translation: the value-creating study group) as the national religion of Japan. New to politics, this flamboyant sect first made its mark in the April municipal elections when 337 of its 362 candidates were elected to office. Founder Tsunesaburo Makiguchi believed that mankind's salvation lay in the teachings of the Buddhist saint Nichiren* By merely chanting the magic formula, "Namu My oho Rengekyo [I devote myself to the Scripture...