Word: ruining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Surrealism was an old tired story when World War II outdated it for keeps. Some of Surrealist Salvador Dali's zany stunts were curiously prophetic of blast and ruin; today they seem tame compared with the actuality of bombs that can melt watches, toss armchairs into treetops and instantly disintegrate a man. Dali is showman enough to know it and he has taken a new tack-back toward Raphael...
...will not ruin but also we cannot cure and save this bourgeois society," he proclaimed. Before his government fell a year later, he had given France government-enforced collective bargaining, a 40-hour week, vacations with pay, regulated banks, a nationalized arms industry. Later, some men said that Blum's alliance against fascism had weakened and divided France, made it an easy prey to fascist aggression...
Television, which "has adversely affected conversation, reading and the public taste," will complete the ruin, thinks Hutchins. "The one good thing that radio has given America is a great deal of fine music. This seems fated to diminish as television spreads...
...unfair" competition from trucks, sat back and applauded last week as the truckers got a roundhouse swing from a not-so-neutral corner. Westinghouse Electric Corp.'s Vice President Andrew H. Phelps called the truckers' use of public highways "transportation by taxation," warned that truck lines "can ruin but not replace rail service." From now on, said Phelps, Westinghouse, which spends $40 million a year on transportation, will always ship by rail except when the truckers offer bargains in rates which the rails decline to meet. One probable reason for the announcement: Westinghouse makes locomotive generators, controls...
...Grain of Help. A modest and intense New Englander, Max Perkins had a modest notion of his job. "Editors," he wrote, "aren't much, and can't be. They can only hlelp a writer realize himself, and they can ruin him if he's pliable . . ." Perkins thought of himself as a literary midwife who helped a writer through the painful labor of creation (mainly by holding his hand), but never tried to shape the nature of his offspring. "Don't ever defer to my judgment," he wrote to Scott Fitzgerald in one of the letters collected...