Word: spanned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lawrence said of the great 19th century U.S. writers: "You must look through the surfaces of American art and see the inner diabolism of the symbolic meaning. Otherwise it is all mere childishness." In Williams', case, the childishness is to assume that he has devoted a life span of writing to the creation of a cartoon strip of regional ogres with which to titillate jaded libidos...
...life by compiling its entire contents from other periodicals and nurturing an evangelical ambition "to inform, inspire and entertain." For its first eight years, the magazine subsisted on previously printed wares, simplified and condensed to accommodate Wallace's notion of suitable brevity or a reader's attention span. Even today, the Digest frequently shears the lead paragraph from reprinted articles, on the assumption that the author is only clearing his throat. Both in selecting and cutting, Wallace's hand was sure from the start. With only minor amendment, much of the February 1922 issue's table...
...basic issue. Merger would produce the world's largest airline, the fourth largest private transportation system (in annual revenues, it would rank just after the Pennsylvania and New York Central railroads-which recently announced their own merger intention-and the Southern Pacific). The combined airline route would span 35,000 miles from Montreal to Mexico City, San Francisco to San Juan. Its 400 planes and 41,000 employees would serve 120 cities, handle some 35% of the nation's air traffic, ring up sales of $700 million (1961 total) v. $500 million for its nearest competitor, United...
...Inheritor. General Dynamics was put together in barely five years by John Jay Hopkins, an audacious, hard-living lawyer turned financial genius, who started off in 1947 with Connecticut's venerable submarine-building Electric Boat Co. as his base. Acquiring companies left and right in an effort to span the entire range of military hardware from submarines to missiles, Hopkins ran General Dynamics with scant organization and largely by the force of his own personality. This month, in the first of two articles called "How a Great Corporation Got Out of Control," FORTUNE relates how Hopkins, aware that...
...Museum of Fine Arts of Houston. The show was the first big thing for James Johnson Sweeney since he was appointed director last January after angrily resigning from Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum. Sweeney stuck to Derain's pre-World War I output, but even with the span thus limited, one fact about Derain comes through. Only seemingly did Derain belong with his contemporaries; essentially he was a traditionalist. In the words of Jean Cassou. curator of the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, he was "the modern artist who refused to be modern...