Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hours." Last week's initial diagnosis of a "chill" was in force 16 hours longer than the announcements of "digestive upset" that preceded disclosure of Ike's heart attack in 1955 and last year's ileitis. But on both previous occasions Press Secretary Jim Hagerty made swift amends with a discursive, detailed flow of information on the President's progress. When Ike was stricken last week, Hagerty was in Paris...
...pitch to the viewer's subconscious mind (TIME, Nov. 18). one TV station announced that it has been trying the technique for two months. WTWO in Bangor, Me. superimposes the suggestion "Write W-TWO" once every eleven seconds on certain of its TV shows, in a flash too swift for conscious perception. The station promised to keep FCC posted on the experiment; so far, a spokesman admitted, the results in the station's mail volume have been as subliminal as the message. But the trade weekly Broadcasting found two radio stations that reported success with a similar method...
...Wyeth's own life was both swift and deep. Dead at 62, he left behind him a widened world of imagination and a family dedicated to the arts (besides Andrew, Wyeth's daughter Henriette and son-in-law Peter Kurd are distinguished painters). Soon after N. C.'s death, his son Andrew painted a picture of a boy running downhill. "For me," Andy says, "the bulges of that hill seem to be breathing-rising and falling-almost as if my father were underneath them...
...broken bones and painful cuts administered by three well trained athletes cry out much more effectively than we could ever hope to do. We can only demand swift and severe punitive action. We can only ask why these men did what they...
...Upon The Window-Pane, is far and away the best. Written in prose and naturalistic in form, the work reflects Yeats' lifelong preoccupation with spiritualism by restaging a seance in modern Dublin. The seance is disturbed by the intrusion of a "hostile spirit," who turns out to be Jonathan Swift. It is a wonderfully gripping work, with an atmosphere both eerie and convincing...