Word: torches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last-Minute Backdown. For a week the rock-throwing, torch-waving and teargassing went on, but the U.S. Army stood firm and did not lose its head. Finally, Syngman Rhee backed down and proclaimed that his government was opposed to the "civilian violence." Rhee demanded that the U.S. give a guarantee that the NNSC would soon be "peacefully evicted." An officer at the Wolmi barricade summed up the Army's reaction: "Even if I could hand over the Czechs and Poles to these people, I wouldn't do it. It's a matter of principle. We told...
...looking like a grease monkey." Sculptor Smith's complaint reflects the rise of a new phenomenon in the art world: a flood of wire and metal shapes that is turning many a sculptor's studio into something resembling a blacksmith's shop, where the oxyacetylene torch has replaced the hammer and chisel, a welder's mask the smock...
...thus the first which poses civilization as a problem-which asks itself, what is civilization? This is a great adventure of the spirit. The image it recalls is of a man advancing not in the light, but in the night, lit up only by the torch he bears in his hand...
Ruth Etting (Columbia LP). One of the alltime torch-singing queens in reissues inspired by the current film about her life, Love Me or Leave Me (TIME, June 6). Ruth Etting is past mistress of the musical affectations of the jazz age-the faint hiccup, the tear in the larynx, the lilting dash into a phrase and the heartbroken sigh as it ends. Today, some of it sounds laughable, but Songstress Etting's languorous sweetness and warmth make most of it sound just fine. Songs range from the razzmatazz rhythms of Shaking the Blues Away and At Sundown...
...baccalaureate speech at Massachusetts' Brandeis University, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt lamented the end of America's revolutionary enterprise. However, she saw a successor to carry on the torch: "I can think of only one country which today contains the spirit which founded America, and that is the state of Israel...