Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manuel into operation, the Government gave Magma a strong helping hand: a $94 million loan from the RFC, fast tax write-offs on plant and railroad, and a price prop at 24? a Ib. With copper now selling at 43? a Ib., Magma's rough-and-ready President Wesley P. Goss had plenty of reason to fire up San Manuel ahead of schedule. Says he: "When you have more than $100 million tied up, you are interested in getting into production as quickly as possible and getting some of those dollars back...
However, a series of rough away matches at Exeter, Williams, M.I.T., and Yale is coming up in the next two months, with only one home match, Exeter, this Saturday afternoon, to lighten the burden...
...still strongly in the grips of Surrealism. He had accepted the cubists flat picture plans and sacrifice of reality to demands of equilibrium and now worked exploring the possibilities of combining forms, in "jesting grotesque." Never completely satisfied with tightness of silhouettes he sporadically tried his hand at the rough shaky line and nervous application of color. This departure similar to the ramblings of Jackson Pollock show up in some of his etchings done in 1953, which surrender more than usually to spontaneity in design. His oils continue to reflect the relaxation of right geometric form. There is a decreasing...
...photography, though, is remarkably good. The rough terrain over which the Thomas' lugged their equipment is attractive, even for a travelogue. The Thomas' also have assiduously gone around to all the local religious festivals. The result is excerpts from religious dances that run ten hours a day for two weeks, as well as shots of Buddhist pilgrims who spend up to thirty days continually prostrating themselves before Lhasa's temples. Many of their subjects, like the Dalai Lama, had never been photographed before, and may never never again, as the Communists have just topped off their invasion with a Peking...
...second half was so rough, according to official reports of the game, that many players were "badly used up in the fierceness of the play." Bob Sedwick, Crimson tackle, later said the 30,000 fans in the partisan stands "reminded me of scenes described by Charles Dickens of the French Revolution...