Word: sky
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Every bit Macmillan's match at making politics with peace and prosperity, the Labor Party's Hugh Gaitskell coupled pie-in-the-sky welfare promises with reasons for tax reform that came oddly from the lips of a man whose brushes with manual labor have been at best fleeting. "People making these capital gains," he had intoned, "should pay tax on them so that we who live by the sweat of our brow, or with our hands, could have it a little bit easier." In the thickening fog of oratorical battle, Labor hecklers twice howled down Tory Macmillan...
...political infighting. Reeling off the list of Gaitskell's promises (retirement at half pay for all, more schools, hospitals, housing), Macmillan asked: "How can you pay for all you promise?" Stung to anger, Hugh Gaitskell, onetime professional economist, retorted with yet another piece of pie-in-the-sky: "There will be no increase in the standard rate of income tax under a Labor government so long as normal peacetime conditions continue." And from London, Labor Party headquarters chipped in: "We are going to abolish sales tax on such essentials as clothes, furniture and many household goods." In shocked response...
...scenes. The Baron in the Trees stops short of real worth. Its satire on life-on-the-ground is too tentative to slice deep, and only once does Author Calvino suggest a theme. That is when Voltaire asks Cosimo's brother: "But is it to be nearer the sky that your brother stays up there?" The answer: "My brother considers that anyone who wants to see the earth properly must keep himself at a necessary distance from...
...large intaglios by Smith, Summer and Winter, part of a series on the Four Seasons, have an organic force in them that unites in a plausible way sky and earth, relates trees to their shadows, joins rocks and hills in an astoundingly true simulation of the climate and general mood of these two contrasting seasons. In the Winter print, Breughel's influence as well as that of Rembrandt at his most lyric, is artfully suggested...
...observers on the ground, elaborate preparations went to naught. Crowds that gathered on North Shore beaches saw only a dramatic blackening of the clouded sky. The heavy mist and cloud cover effectively blocked the view of the moon's transit, making smoked glasses and exposed x-ray film completely useless...