Word: seene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this looked fine to Nikita Khrushchev. Indeed, even before the Camp David decision, he had seen what was coming and, in high good humor, summoned newsmen to the Kremlin for his second press conference since taking power (see FOREIGN NEWS). He told how his six-month deadline for the West to meet his Berlin demands had not really been hard and fast, and he accepted-without being formally notified-the May 11 date for the foreign ministers' conference, probably in Geneva. But real results, he said, could only come at the summit: "Let's put in the heavyweights...
Guerrilla Days. Everything was far different from when he had last seen Athens. A staff officer of the 2nd (Athens) Division when the Germans and Italians overran Greece in 1941, he had organized, after the fall of Greece, a right-wing group known simply as "X." Alongside the British, it fought first the Nazis, then the Communists in the Greek civil war of 1947-49. He had run for Parliament as an extreme right-wing candidate and lost. Then he began to think of doing something about the British rule on Cyprus, the island where he was born. For months...
...product of contradictions. It is technically a sculpture--there seems to be no way of getting around that--but it is a sculpture which answers more to the laws of painting than to those of the sculptor. It might almost be described as a three dimensional drawing. Seen as a series of individual figures, the work loses its meaning. But, together, as an antiphone of forms which are largely linear, the work moves, functions, comes alive with a remarkably electric vitality...
...draft has been extended in its present form, nonetheless. Whether or not ideas of manpower will change in the next four years remains to be seen...
...painting speak first. This demands "a kind of reverence, a still gratitude, but definitely not admiration. The moment one stops to say. 'Isn't that lovely!' one is in danger of losing the way." Beauty's shadow is significance: "Every great painting shows something seen plus something seen into . . . sight and insight." If the surface story is only half the story in a painting, the "latent content" is the other half, the question the artist answered without consciously asking...