Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thank you for the cover story on Edward Hopper [Dec. 24]. This is the comprehensive type of article on art that the people understand. Refreshing compared to some of the stuff appearing in the art publications...
...artificial snow and frost. Brilliant pioneer work in the field was done by Olaus Magnus in 1550, by Descartes in 1635, by Robert Hooke in 1665. "Snow Crystals" absorbed us, but we set it aside in time, realizing Nakaya could or would not tell us how to combat the stuff. Other pamphlets and books yielded nothing helpful, until we ran onto "Report on the Problem of Snow Removal in the City of Rochester, N.Y., 1917." "Continuous snow fighting will require the systematic and constant use of the sewers on the main streets." There it was. One sometimes knows instinctively when...
...inside the mind of Juanito, an illiterate village Indian from the mountains of Mexico. Every tourist there has seen his like: thin-headed, with a mop of coarse black hair, large-eyed, flat-nosed, full-lipped, looking with impassive dignity from beneath a frayed straw hat. Juanito is the stuff of revolutions, but his private revolutions fail, and he has learned only one thing in life: how to die well...
...things, an improvement in reading standards. Said Greenaway: "Everybody can see mysteries, westerns and love stories on television, so when they come to the library, they ask for more serious books." Result: the library now spends more of its book-buying budget on classics, less on shallow stuff. TV, he says, has also stimulated a reading interest in famous plays, and even the quiz shows have done their bit. Thanks largely to their incentive for boning up on the answers, Greenaway maintains, the circulation of nonfiction has more than doubled in ten years...
...Claus gave us little presents. But by the age of nine we discovered that the Santa at Gimbel's gave bigger, better things away. And any-how the line was shorter. At age twelve we moved into an apartment house so we knew damn well that this chimney-stack stuff was a farce...