Word: spottedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conductor Steinberg did as much teaching as judging. He went on the theory that all conductors are wrapped in conceit ("The degree of conceit among conductors is enormous, even in beginners"), and often cut them down so adroitly that, as one contestant put it, he "demolished your authority entirely, right...
A good 1,600 miles southeastward from Florida last week, watchers aboard the Navy's salvage ship Escape spotted a white object as it hurtled out of the sky and plunged into the Atlantic. It was the nose cone of a Jupiter IRBM, launched only minutes earlier from a...
Wright found his site the Wright way. Circling in over Baghdad by airplane, he spotted a long narrow island in the middle of the Tigris. He discovered that it was royal property, went straight to King Feisal II. Recounts Wright: "The young king took me by the arm, smiled and...
Impulse to Save. Supermarket defense devices are far less imaginative than the shoplifters' gimmicks. National Food trains clerks and checkers by film slides and lecture tapes ("An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of apprehension"), and most chains have beefed up their security forces. Checkers learn catcherlike signals...
Such celebration of painting materials for their own sake (much as if a composer were to write a concerto about, not for a violin) seems on its way out. Strongest trend Baur spotted was "a general but oblique redirection of abstract expressionism toward nature for its own sake." Painter Kyle...