Word: solomon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some time, the public has been feeling cheated by artists painting for themselves rather than for the viewer. However unsettling, the new abstractionists paint for the viewer, coolly calculate, as Director of the Jewish Museum Alan Solomon says, to "draw the beholder into the problem"-and once he is in, keep him in on the hard edge of suspense...
...Democratic Governor John King appeared. King wasted no time. "A few minutes ago," he said, "I signed House Bill 47." He had, he explained, signed the bill because he felt that the citizens of New Hampshire wanted it, and "I am unwilling to set myself up as a Solomon or a Caesar in the holy assumption that my views are more intelligent or discerning or moralistic than those of our people." What King had done was to approve the U.S.'s first legal lottery since...
...Song of Solomon needed some new words last week as the power saws growled and stately old elm trees crashed to the pavement. They were all doomed by Dutch elm disease, though many of them could probably have been saved by careful, persistent programs of spraying with insecticides...
...fights worth going to and fighters worth talking about. Then the mob gathered on Jacobs Beach, the sidewalk at 49th and Broadway. Now they sit at grey Formica tables in the Garden Cafeteria gulping matzo-ball soup, or at Jack Dempsey's bar sipping Rob Roys. Promoter Jack Solomon was in from London to see the fight. Lester Collins, ten years a manager and now a California businessman flew to New York because "I heard so much about Clay I had to find out if he's really that good." Ernie Braca, Sugar Ray Robinson...
...their payrolls to giving advice on foreign investments. But nothing wins over the flinty-eyed treasurer like a better interest rate. "It's fantastic what some of them will do for a one-hundredth of one percent pickup in interest," says a Los Angeles banker. Adds President Emmett Solomon of San Francisco's Crocker-Anglo Bank: "The corporate treasurer is in the driver's seat...