Word: seene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quality of "The New American Painting," I find abstract expressionism rather dull. Relying on sensational color and muscular painting techniques does not make a painting exciting. The most honestly painted section of a De Kooning canvas is his signature, and Kline is just plain boring after you've seen your first three...
Never have I seen anything so gruesome. If this is a manifestation of that "inevitable force"-Arab nationalism-then Arab nationalism poses as great a threat to the civilized world as Communism, since both appear to revel in savagery and slaughter...
...misunderstanding of his country, Stevenson met with warm hospitality toward himself. Accompanied by his sons John Fell, 22, and Borden, 26, Law Partner William M. Blair, and Russian Specialist Robert Tucker, he found official smiles and small but friendly crowds in big cities, rural hamlets, Siberian industrial towns rarely seen by Westerners. Among the trip's happiest chapters: a lavish official picnic in a forest near Sverdlovsk, within sight of a boundary marker inscribed "Europe" on one side and "Asia" on the other; a leisurely trip up the Volga in a side-wheel steamer left over from Czarist days...
Reciprocal Trade. President Eisenhower asked for five-year reciprocal trade extension, with tariff-cutting authority of up to 25%. During bitter House fight, the Administration applied heat (moaned veteran Tariff Lobbyist Oscar Strackbein: "I have never seen such pressure since the days of Franklin Roosevelt"), got vital help from able Arkansas Democrat Wilbur Mills, chairman of House Ways & Means Committee. House result: 317 to 98 for the President's program, an astonishing victory. But reciprocal trade ran into trouble with the protectionist-dominated Senate Finance Committee. Senate result: a relatively weak bill, with three-year extension and 15% tariff...
...government -still seething at the recent murder of Lieut. Colonel Fredrick Collier as he watered his flowers at his bungalow near Limassol-was officially silent. But the nameless leader of the Turkish Cypriot underground movement, T.M.T., also agreed to call off all attacks "until further notice." Cyprus, which has seen 127 killed in gangland-type slayings in less than two months, breathed a sigh of relief...