Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...PEASANTS OUTCLASS THE MIGHTY U.S.A.," read a headline in Lord Beaverbrook's London Evening Standard last week. The left-wing New Statesman and Nation took another tack, suggested that perhaps the best way to handle the Korean war would be to admit the Chinese Communists to the U.N., remove General MacArthur as U.N. commander in the Far East, and let Britain step in as mediator. U.S. journalists in London also reported that some Britons were getting a certain amount of quiet satisfaction in seeing the mighty "Yanks" get their "come-uppance...
...First Tack: Blues. Before he was 15, Picasso was already well launched on his first tack. His father was a drawing teacher in Spain, and Pablo inherited the old man's academic skill along with his brushes. He was still a boy when he had his first one-man show, in the doorway of an umbrella-maker's shop in La Coruña. At 18 he took off for Paris, the artists' Mecca, which has been his base of operations ever since...
Over the Horizon. Long before that could happen, Picasso had climbed back into overalls, and his art was on a new tack-one which took him straight over the horizon and out of most solid citizens' ken. He borrowed ideas from the whole range of art history, carving figures that looked like Sumerian fetishes, and drawing in every manner from the Cro-Magnon to that of severe 19th Century classicists such as Ingres. His subject matter became anything at all-dogs, women, roosters, bones, furniture, dots, musicians-violently twisted, hacked, smeared and rearranged to suit Picasso's moods...
...known Communists in the State Department, I wouldn't give you their names." Iowa's Bourke Hickenlooper tried him out on a series of names. Shouted Browder: "I refuse to answer. I will have no part in a fishing expedition." Connecticut's Brien McMahon tried another tack. "You don't have to answer if you feel your answer might incriminate you," he said wheedlingly, but there were some names that had been publicly mentioned. What did he know of Dorothy Kenyon, Haldore Hanson, John Carter Vincent, John Service? Chimed in Chairman Millard Tydings: "If you felt...
...Salvador Dali's zany stunts were curiously prophetic of blast and ruin; today they seem tame compared with the actuality of bombs that can melt watches, toss armchairs into treetops and instantly disintegrate a man. Dali is showman enough to know it and he has taken a new tack-back toward Raphael...