Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Strangely enough, those most affected seem to fret least about the apparent inequities of the peacetime draft. "I don't worry about the draft," says a Dallas high school student. "Why should I? There's no war." Says a Chicago draft-board official: "Most boys of draft age have never known a time when there was no draft.-They regard it as a part of their lives." And-Manny Celler & Co. to the contrary-for as long as the young men feel so, there are likely to be more numbers drawn in the long line of succession...
This becalming atmosphere reflected, in part, a change of heart among those outside powers concerned with Cyprus. Greece and Turkey, not on speaking terms two months ago, seem mutually appalled by disorder's reign, and are making private efforts to narrow their differences. Greece's Ambassador to Turkey has been shuttling between Athens and Ankara, setting the stage for a meeting in Paris this week between Turkish Foreign Minister Fatin Rustu Zorlu and Greek Foreign Minister Evangelos Averoff-Tossizza. Greece is moving closer to abandoning its cry of enosis (union with Greece) and Turkey its demand for partition...
...Federal Trade Commission last week issued a progress report on its all-out attack on phony price cutting. In the three months since FTC started the campaign with a warning to merchants to stop marking up goods in order to make fake price cuts seem to be bargains, 60 companies have learned their lesson the hard way. Box score: 33 complaints, 21 orders to cease and desist, and six consent agreements. Most of the actions (32) were against furriers, long among the most obvious of the price packers, but the campaign also extended to sellers of sewing machines, perfumes, women...
...most present visitors, the Albright's latest exhibition remains a monumental procession of question marks in color. Hans Hartung's T 55-28 has airy life about it, yet hardly seems to justify Expert Alfred Barr's considered statement that Hartung, 54, a German turned Parisian, is "perhaps the best master of calligraphic abstraction." In 3 Avril 54, Pierre Soulages' black, plank-broad oil smears do not seem a great advance over the similar smears that first brought him attention a decade ago. Donald Hamilton Eraser's Morning Star offers at least a tenuous contact...
...aplomb of knowledgeable Englishmen whose ease of manner gives "the impression of having already lived once," but found "too many reserved seats" in English life. He was drawn to the independent French spirit of live-and-let-live, but noted the spiritual vacuum in which "French intellectuals so often seem to dislike the present, to fear the future and to deny the hereafter. They believe only in disbelieving." As for the prevailing winds of anti-Americanism. Griffith reminds his readers that unfavorable winds have always blown in the faces of the powerful. And many of Europe's phobias spring...