Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME COVER SUBJECT MAKES GOOD. Thirty-five years ago, the handsome, cowlicked Yale crew "captain, James Stillman Rockefeller, smiled out from a TIME cover, his expression confident that the Olympic crew that he led would go forth, "the bronze-skinned ones, to conquer the oarsmen of the world, as warlike Menelaus led the bronze-greaved Argives against Troy of old." The late Arthur Brisbane, his fancy tickled by the responsibilities of "this stalwart scion of honorable American lines," imagined him stirring his men to victory with "winged words plucked bright and burning" from the Homeric Greek...
...electric chair, another in the governor's mansion. Why? For more than three decades, the mystery has been probed by Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck, Harvard Law School's famed husband-and-wife criminologist team. The Glueck (rhymes with look) team has published three near classics on the subject: 500 Criminal Careers, One Thousand Juvenile Delinquents, Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency. Last week the Gluecks published their latest study: Predicting Delinquency and Crime (Harvard University; $6.50). Its startling premise: criminal behavior can be forecast almost as accurately as an insurance company figures the odds on accident and death...
...they met last week in Washington, delegates to the meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund studiously avoided discussion of one subject: a change in the world's gold policy. Reason for the reticence: their host, the U.S. Treasury, is unequivocally opposed to any change. Since the U.S. is the world's largest gold holder, no adjustment can be made without U.S. initiative. Yet speculation about a change continues to be an irrepressible topic of conversation among financiers and statesmen around the world...
This spiritual investigation-the making of a saint-is the subject of Australian Novelist West's devout and fascinating new novel...
...long, thin strokes to create a highly abstract atmosphere through which people and objects appear, much as images appear through the dots of a Seurat drawing. Another artist of this "moderate" group, Rudy Puzzeti, exhibits Tower of Babel, an atmospheric evocation of Breughel's famed painting on the same subject...