Word: soled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crackpot spiritual athletes who thought otherwise. The artist, of course, was always in this small group of dissidents, and, if he didn't go off to Europe seeking art for art's sake, he spent most of his time at home pointing out the dilemmas of a society whose sole motivation is blind greed. It was the playwright who exploited these dilemmas best, partly because other artists avoided the plight of the "normal" person altogether. The poetry and novels of the post-war period are filled with madmen and dropouts but with few members of the overwhelming nine-to-five...
...Jahn rules the roost as chairman, president and sole stockholder of his Zurich-based Wienerwald Share Corp. Estimates of his fortune start at $70 million. He is completely debt free. "I've always operated with my own means, independent of banks," he says. Jahn travels constantly, spending six days a month in the U.S. For short trips he favors one of his five chauffeur-driven Mercedes-Benz 300s. For longer hops he uses one of his three aircraft. Once aloft, the millionaire ex-headwaiter, often in shirtsleeves and with blue eyes gleaming, serves sandwiches and coffee to his executives...
...Assembly, the U.S. and its energetic allies from Japan argued that the China issue was a matter of membership. Peking should be admitted, the Americans argued, but there was no justification for expelling the Taipei regime, even if both governments did claim to be the sole legitimate representative of China. The pro-Peking forces argued that it was merely a question of credentials. If both Mao and Chiang claimed to rule all of China, only one could be right. Accordingly, they maintained, Peking, obviously in control of most of China, should be given the seat; the Nationalists, losers...
...most ancient, for it becomes a pitiless Mithraic sun) belong more to the world of the Greek pediment and the Roman battle sarcophagus than to that of the Kondor Division, whose bombs demolished Guernica. But it remains a passionate and epic work, and it was Picasso's sole politically effective gesture. The best comment on Picasso's later (and continuing) role as a painter laureate to the French Communist Party, which he joined in 1944, was made by Salvador Dali: "Picasso is a Spaniard-so am I! Picasso is a genius-so am I! Picasso is a Communist...
Patient on Call. In 1948, when Bullock first came to McArthur, there were three other doctors to help meet the area's medical needs. By 1959, the death or departure of his colleagues had left him the sole physician. Vacations, even days off, became luxuries beyond his reach. "I had office hours six days a week," he recalls now, "but there wasn't a Sunday I didn't have to go into the office for one thing or another." Bullock attempted to give up work at the hospital, which consumed a large part of his time, only...