Word: tides
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Earth, Air & Water. First atomic news that reaches Japan from a "high-yield" explosion in mid-Pacific is carried by earth waves, detected by seismographs. They are followed about three hours later by air waves, picked up by barographs. Then come ocean waves, which register on tide gauges...
Poet Archibald MacLeish, bucking the pessimistic tide that often damns man's material progress, dashed off a ten-stanza Poem in a Festival of Art in Boston at the Public Garden, then headed there to read it. Gist of Poem: "Is it the city or heart that's wrong . . . / O hush! There is a silence in this place, / For all the chattering gears that grind, a grace / Of present expectation in this ground . . . / No city stands but is the image of the heart...
Throughout India, the land of Gandhi's satyagraha (peaceful soul force), a tide of violence was on the rise. Never far be neath the surface since January's Bombay riots, in which hundreds of people were killed, it broke again with a sudden and terrible fury in the blaze of India's consuming summer heat...
Surveying today's world, he called Communism "a gigantic failure," noted the rising tide of nationalism in the free world. "We have helped many small nations to independence [and] will continue to do so." But he saw that growing nationalism creates political and economic barriers, impeding trade and prosperity "as each new nation steps forward to an independent place in the international family. The emotional urge for a completely independent existence may conflict with an equal desire for higher living standards...
...Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, was the view Kienbusch got of a weir made of burnt spruce, set in a tideway. "The spruce boughs were rust-colored," he recalls. "They stood up out of the water like wild orange branches in a blue field. The three bars represent low tide, and then the island. It's kind of a wild picture...