Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...humor. The new bronze figures by Sculptor Chaim Gross at Manhattan's Forum Gallery appear to be having the time of their lives: mothers and children dance and embrace; acrobats tumble gaily over each other; jugglers fling their rings dexterously into the air. It takes a moment to shed the superstition that to be light-hearted is automatically to be lightweight...
Motifs from Egypt. The earliest items in the exhibition came from the tombs of the Etruscan aristocracy. At first Etruscan artisans borrowed heavily from the Phoenicians, who in turn had taken their art motifs-typically the sphinx-from ancient Egypt. The Phoenicians favored storytelling art, but the Etruscans shed narrative for simple beauty. The gold cup (see color) celebrates no victory, tells of no heroic deeds. Decorated only by intricate little sphinxes, the cup delights the eye with its untainted lines...
...Actors with plain, pronounceable, American Legion sort of names yearn for toning up. Ruby Stevens is Barbara Stanwyck; Peggy Middleton is Yvonne De Carlo; Norma Jeane Baker is Marilyn Monroe. Even Gladys Smith found a little more stature in the name Mary Pickford. On the other hand, embarrassed bluebloods shed their hyphens and thus declare their essential homogeneity with the masses. Reginald Truscott-Jones was too obviously soaked in tallyho. He became Ray Milland. Spangler Arlington Brugh denuded himself of all his nominal raiment and emerged as Robert Taylor. Audrey Hepburn-Ruston amputated it neatly...
...paper that buried Douglas MacArthur's 1951 record downfall of 3,249 tons. There was the inescapable luncheon at the Waldorf with hours of zephyrous speeches, and at the U.N. Glenn and his fellow astronauts chatted with the diplomats over champagne. Between the official rounds, the Glenn family shed their shoes in their Waldorf suite (to minimize the static electricity) and assembled at the blast of a trumpet-the gift of Manhattan's musicians-playfully tooted by father John. For relaxation they spent successive evenings at the theater, at How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying...
After years of discussion, Italy's apertura a sinistra ("opening to the left") last week became a risky reality. In effect, the Christian Democratic Party shed some of its right-wing allies in parliament and went into partnership with Pietro Nenni's left-wing Socialists, who had long been working closely with the Communists. Chief architect of the experiment is shrewd, scholarly Premier Amintore Fanfani, who believes that only through the Nenni alliance can he muster the votes needed for necessary domestic reforms (TIME, Feb. 9). But many left-wingers predict gloomily that Nenni will become a hostage...