Word: tides
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until last week the Kitchen-Sinkers were resounding critical successes but financial flops. The first of the New Realists to win cash along with credit is Edward Middleditch, 32. Time & Tide's critic noted that Artist Middleditch's current exhibit at London's Beaux Arts Gallery "seems to be continually attempting things that have not been done before" and rated him "the most original and interesting of the younger men." The Observer agreed, found it difficult to name a British contemporary "so exciting and fertile." The buyers backed the critics; Middleditch wound up his show with...
...Soviet rulers are now genuinely and absolutely confident of their position. Internally, they are sure there is no shadow of a threat to their regime. Externally, they are sure that the tide of history is now flowing ever more rapidly in the direction of the world hegemony they seek...
This collapse of the will to resist surprised even the Communists themselves, who suddenly revised their calculations upward. In July Mao predicted that the New China was about to witness the "high tide of the great socialist revolution." In January of this year he said the tide was running. Last July Mao announced that only 16.9 million of the no million "peasant households" had been forced into producer cooperatives; by December he was able to announce that "more than 60% of peasant families" were in cooperatives-an astonishing increase of 53.1 million peasant families in six months...
Just as the tide ebbed, the first invading wave of cars whisked along the rim of the sand. Loudspeakers blatted. Whistles skirled. The racket of racing engines woke the town. For the next two weeks the annual speed trials of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing turned Daytona Beach, Fla. into a motorized madhouse...
...major question is just how we go about evacuating. Perhaps a boat ride down the Charles or a rampage towards Wellesley would turn the tide. It is also quite possible that we might trample ourselves to death and thus solve the entire problem. In all, the day of the great evacuation should be just dandy...