Word: statements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sample of Artist Still's "responsible statement...
...boosts in steel, with or without a strike, might well touch off a new wage-price spiral. Against that threat President Eisenhower gave stern warning at his news conference last week. "Here is a place where labor and management must show statesmanship," said the President, making an almost unprecedented statement on labor-management negotiations specifically impending. The "measure of their statesmanship" will be to see that steel prices do not go up. The Government should keep out of "the business of collective bargaining," said Ike, but if the U.S. is going to preserve its free economy, labor and management, particularly...
Despite the scandal, the puzzle gimmick scarcely missed a beat. A few papers, e.g., the Philadelphia Bulletin, decided they had had enough, but most puzzle contests went right on. In a front-page statement, the Milwaukee Sentinel said that since the fraud had been exposed and "the leak" stopped, there is no reason why the puzzle game should not be more popular than ever...
...made it his own, educating himself at the public library. For a living he tried many menial jobs: he ran elevators, once worked as doorkeeper at the Guggenheim Museum. He long hesitated between painting and writing, failed to paint a picture that struck him as "a personal statement" until he was 32. In the eleven years of his life that remained, Salemme sold pictures to Manhattan's Metropolitan, Whitney and Modern museums. He was also commissioned to paint murals for posh Manhattan House and the old Moore-McCormack liner Argentina. Yet he was more respected than sought after; Salemme...
McLaughlin, a journalist as well as a novelist (he is an associate editor of TIME), has an unerring eye for the Manhattan landscape, a faithful ear for the speech of the superficially smart. Although he never preaches, and the explicit statement of his theme never rises above the pitch of party talk, the reader is not allowed to forget the book's title; it would be a different story if any of the characters really had a notion...