Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Broadly and swiftly done, with more dramatic flair than sensuous feeling, his canvases strike right through the retina to the mind. Yet whether his pictures are sufficiently rich in color, firm in drawing and subtle in composition to live beyond the grave is another question. Masterpieces generally are constructed either with the utmost care and polish or else with what Transcendentalist Emerson himself called "nerve and dagger." Wight is too self-conscious to be really bold, too rushed to polish much...
...Patton, 53, who reflects an era far removed from the fighting, roaring times of Tom Girdler. Patton is the first Republic president who did not come up through production, instead, started as Republic's general counsel in 1936, more recently helped negotiate steel's most peaceful strike. With Girdler gone, Chairman White will set Republic policy, Patton will execute...
From Kansas City, Kohler strike leaders are carrying their crusade to other meetings of the 18 million U.S. unionists. This week they move to labor conventions in Wisconsin, Ohio and Nevada. Said U.A.W. International Representative Donald Rand: "There won't be a trade meeting any place that does not get the Kohler story...
...hard the boycott really hits Kohler is uncertain, for the family-owned firm publishes no earnings report. The U.A.W. said that Kohler sales are down 37% since the boycott began last November.* Still, Kohler now claims to have 2,800 nonstrikers at work v. 3,300 before the strike, many of them on overtime. The company also says it sells everything it can make, earned more last year than in the strike's first year...
...Strike Clause. In Elizabeth, N.J., after she slapped a chef, was struck in return during a disagreement over an order of onions, Waitress Fay Martin won $5,200 damages in a ruling by a judge who called it "common knowledge" that "a woman's slap on the face of a grown man is not of such character as to require resistance...