Word: titan
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Died. Pär Lagerkvist, 83, titan of Swedish literature and 1951 Nobel laureate; following a stroke; in Stockholm. The rebellious son of devout Lutheran peasants, Lagerkvist was enchanted with the Fauvist and Cubist artists of pre-World War I Paris. After experimenting with expressionism in a host of early, pessimistic poems and plays, Lagerkvist, who described himself as "a religious atheist," later developed the starker, more realistic prose style necessary to his vision of humanitarian idealism. In the U.S., he was best known for The Dwarf (1945), a bitter, allegorical novel about human greed, and Barabbas (1951), an enigmatic...
What gives the Soviets this ability is the greater power of their rockets. The S59 and the new SS-18 have "throw-weights" capable of launching warheads packing 25 megatons, equal to 25 million tons of TNT. The most powerful U.S. rocket, the aging Titan 2 (of which 54 are still in operation), can accommodate only a ten-megaton warhead...
Still a director of Mobil, Nickerson's resume reads like a textbook example of an industrial titan. He has been on the board of directors of six corporations and banks, the executive committee of the conservative National Alliance of Businessmen and the American Petroleum Institute. He has been chairman of the advisory committees of the U.S. Department of Commerce and of the Federal Reserve Board of New York. He is a trustee of Rockefeller University and the American Museum of Natural History, and a member of the prestigious Council on Foreign Relations. And since 1965, he has been a Fellow...
...Pierpont Morgan sat for the most succinct photograph of big money ever taken: Alfred Steichen's portrait of the financial titan glaring at the intrusive lens, an old, suspicious bull walrus, one hand gripping the chair arm as though about to reduce its mahogany to flinders, highlights glittering sharply on his eyeballs. He looks like a boiler on the verge of explosion. If Morgan had never felt the impulse to collect, this photograph would still have given him a place in the history of art. But it would have been a footnote compared to the one he occupies. Morgan...
RICHARD II. This is not one of Shakespeare's master plays, and it has no titan of a hero at its epicenter. But it can be a wonderfully engrossing drama, and it does contain grand, stirring and passionate speeches. In this presentation the play is reduced to a tepid tempest in a cracked teacup...