Word: quilted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Balanced but Unpredictable. Calder never works his mobiles out mathematically in advance. He calculates the delicate balances of each part by the cut-and-try method. "It's like making a patchwork quilt," he says. "You can't predict...
...patchwork quilt day, a day of multi-colored squares, a day which means something different to every individual...
...troops finally took Shanghai in 1949, the Review hailed the city's "liberation," lavishly praised "the new democracy," and began demanding Formosa's "liberation" from Chiang Kai-shek's "henchmen." The Review's version of life in the U.S. became a red-and-pink patchwork quilt, sewn together from such dependably left-wing sources as the speeches of Howard Fast and George Seldes' news letter In Fact. Wrote the Review: "The United States, in the eyes of the Chinese people, has become the symbol of world reaction...
...result of this patch-quilt cushion for old age is that some workers are not covered at all, while some will enjoy as many as three or four pensions. The big reason a worker has to lean on other plans in addition to Social Security is that after 15 years, Social Security benefits are still too small to give security...
Saving Graces. For all their uniform mediocrity, Boston papers do have an individuality of their own. The Democratic Post, with its crazy-quilt makeup, somehow conveys the air of a loquacious New England storekeeper with a lot to say, if not about anything important...