Word: stone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blazed a trail without raising an army of followers; he has created a style without founding a school. He stands alone, as solitary as his bronze image (see color) rising above a lonely Scottish moor, as unique as one of his strong and sweepingly molded figures of wood or stone, recognizable yet unfamiliar, warm yet discomfiting, partly abstract and groping for answers to the mystery: What...
...keep bumping into a stone wall? asked New Mexico's Clinton P. Anderson of fellow Senate Democrats one afternoon last week. Clint Anderson's stone wall was Republican President Dwight Eisenhower, whose strong position on issues back home loomed higher and higher, even while Ike himself was off in Europe scoring a major breakthrough on foreign policy. Not since Franklin Roosevelt's heady first term had a U.S. President brought his will to bear on Congress with such effective force, and never before had a President so effectively controlled an opposition Congress. The labor reform bill that...
...Arts will open next week a full-scale show of his past works and future projects, timed to coincide with the dedication of Yamasaki's newest building -the Detroit headquarters of Reynolds Metals Co. Though its grille of gold anodized aluminum owes an unabashed debt to Architect Ed Stone, the Reynolds building, on a 4½-acre plot in a suburb just north of Detroit, epitomizes Yamasaki's ideals of serenity and delight. Aluminum-clad columns lift it above a pond filled with water lilies. Employees will cross the pond on slender concrete ramps on their...
...Puro Pinget, a stone's throw away, a dozen murders have taken place in the past year over a faction fight that has split the northern and southern sections of the village into warring groups. Puro Pinget's new village boss, elected fortnight ago by unanimous vote, is 37-year-old David Torda, currently out on bail on a charge of killing a 72-year-old neighbor in June...
...dissect an idea, even when he is with his wife or son or daughter. He scribbles his ideas on memo sheets or matchbooks, empties them out of his pockets in the morning, when his secretary fires them off to RCA executives. On the way from his twelve-room stone house in Greenwich. Conn, to his antique-studded office on the 53rd floor of Manhattan's RCA Building, he usually takes along an RCA executive for a back-seat conference in his chauffeur-driven Cadillac. Visiting the U.S. exhibit in Moscow, Burns was Johnny on the spot during the Khrushchev...