Word: shadowings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shadow of Violence. Unable to carry the day by parliamentary means, the extremists coldly set out to create an atmosphere of near civil war, reminiscent of the May 1958 uprising that toppled the Fourth Republic. At midweek, Gaullist Lucien Neuwirth, World War II underground fighter, publicly charged that a "commando of killers" had crossed into France from Spain with orders to assassinate leading ministers, government officials, and newspaper editors. Police pooh-poohed the warning until Left-Wing Senator François Mitterrand, who supports negotiations with the F.L.N., narrowly escaped death in the heart of Paris, when unidentified machine gunners...
...both shores of the Mediterranean, the menace of violence lay like a dark shadow over what might well prove the last, best hope for a peaceful settlement of the Algerian fighting. Once again, only the vast prestige of Charles de Gaulle could carry France through to a happy conclusion...
...agon of Henry Fordyce, Jr. took place in the leafy shadow of the world tree in the Harkness Commons Dining room, where the flower of the graduate schools daily acquires its breakfast...
Almost by default, the grand prize (worth $4,000) went to Britain's Barbara Hepworth. Sculptress Hepworth, 56, once had her studio near Henry Moore's, and has stayed in his long, pierced shadow. Her smoothly involuted forms look like Moore's women without the womanliness; they are more like analytical geometry than like people. More powerful are the forged iron abstractions of Italy's Francesco Somaini, at 33 a newcomer to the big time, who won the prize for the best foreign sculptor. Rough, inelegant for an Italian, Somaini produces work resembling meteorites and mountains, full of energy...
Publisher Lottinville, onetime Rhodes scholar, speaks with authority. For 20 years, he has run his bustling, 40-man shop in the shadow of an oil derrick. Yet Oklahoma is known for more than oil. Over the years, its topflight press has published 426 books, ranging from the influential Plowman's Folly (340,000 copies sold) to last week's Athens in the Age of Pericles, the first of an intriguing series on great cities. Oklahoma's recent music books make it better known in Milan and Bonn than many a famed name on Manhattan's publishers...