Word: tinned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lone seeker on the right, possibly experiencing his last spring in Cambridge, it was a day to realize how much you were leaving behind and to contemplate the Charles, which, even if it is the only tin-lined river in the world, can still be beautiful when the light is right...
...Ballet Set to Jazz. Like so many other young men in the arts, he plunged into experiment. "I'd cut things out of pressed wood and fasten bolts and locks onto them. In New Mexico I painted tin cans in a more or less naturalistic way-that was a gesture against the romantic idea of natural beauty. And on the docks in Gloucester, I remember doing a collage with pieces of cotton and a button sewed on the canvas and a piece of tin." Finally, in 1927, he "nailed a rubber glove, an electric fan and an egg beater...
...House, Ike wondered aloud: "What has happened to our concept of beauty and decency and morality?" Books and movies are laced with "vulgarity, sensuality, indeed downright filth." People dance "the twist instead of the minuet." Modern paintings look as if they have been "run over by a broken-down tin lizzie loaded with paint.'' He did not think the U.S. would go for it for long. "I per sonally believe," said Ike, "that we are about to see, and are seeing, a renaissance in American pride in America, an American pride in the characteristics that have made America...
...helper. "Here I have a radio," says Paredes. A Peruvian mountain couple, German and Aurelia Ortega, are stuck in El Monton (The Pile), a Lima slum of 5,000 people beside a garbage dump. With 14 relatives, they huddle in a dirt-floored hut-its walls made of flattened tin cans, scrap wood and cardboard cartons. German, 30, earns 25 soles (93?) a day in a pottery plant; the others ragpick or beg for scraps at the back doors of restaurants. Once each day Aurelia brews a thin stew from the choicest tidbits. Says Aurelia, "We are not starving here...
Sought Fissures. A Soviet trade mission concluded a new economic agreement for 1962 with Peking last week. China will exchange tin, mercury, wool, silk fabrics, readymade clothes and handicrafts for Russian oil products, chemicals, trucks, scientific instruments and machinery parts. Significantly, China undertakes to export no food, and the Russians apparently were supplying little or no equipment related to heavy industry...