Word: round
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...courageous police chief of Little Rock, one Gene Smith, who was instrumental in preventing the public expression of resentment against the institution of integration in schools there, was very impressive. He sounds much like the collaborators in World War II, France and Norway, who were helping the Germans to round up their own countrymen...
...Oldest and best known is scholarly, affable George Cohen, 40, whose The Serpent Chooses Adam and Eve caused something of a sensation at last year's Carnegie International. In that, as in most of his canvases, Cohen combined deliberately clumsy, pictographic painting with collage, pasting in a round mirror and a hank of Eve's hair. Mirrors, he explains, "are the supreme illusion; they mock both the viewer and the painting." Cohen teaches at Northwestern University, talks well about other men's art but bogs down when it comes to his own nightmarish visions. "I begin with...
Blossoming Relations. Even so. Protestant leaders are confident that Orthodoxy is warming up to the World Council. And the climate of Rhodes gave hope for even better relations. The two Russian observers-round-faced, balding Viktor S. Alexeev, 33, a layman on the staff of the Moscow patriarchate's foreign affairs department, and dark, beaky Archpriest Vitaly M. Borovoy, 43, professor of ecclesiastical history at Leningrad Theological Academy, had already spent three weeks studying the World Council at its headquarters in Geneva, and a delegation of W.C.C. leaders will return the visit in Moscow next December. Said the World...
...biggest religious festivals in Ceylon is Esala Perahera, held each year for centuries in honor of the tooth of Buddha, which is enshrined in Kandy, Ceylon. While the densely packed pilgrims from all across the Orient press close, torchbearers and musicians swirl round a procession of painted elephants. Last week's Perahera drew a crowd of 100,000 Buddhists-and twice it turned into a milling nightmare...
...turns out space gas between star-watching and undersea-photography expeditions to the far ends of the earth. He sounds thoroughly convincing when he writes, at a moment of high dramatic intensity (a star is blowing up): "Those last exposures did it! ... They show the gaseous shell expanding round the nova. And the speed agrees with your Doppler shifts." His characters may seem as standard as those in any war film (his monsters, though, are quite human), but most science-fiction writers proceed on the assumption, probably correct, that one man's neurosis, however interesting, is not very significant...