Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though the poet's epigrams illuminate a vast range of topics all the way from freedom to fate and from love to loyalty, one theme dominates all the others. How great, he asks, is the responsibility of each man for the welfare of his fellows? The answer to this overwhelming question is a dramatized version of the biblical Golden Rule, set as a costume piece during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. The protagonist of the play is a brash but cowardly deserter from the Hungarian army who takes refuge in the home of his former mother-in-law. That lady...
Great Transformer. "No other man contributed so much to the vast expansion of 20th century knowledge," said President Eisenhower. Pravda editorialized: "A great transformer of natural science." Said the Prime Minister of Israel: "The world has lost its foremost genius...
...swift rise Hultberg can thank first a considerable talent, and second the fading of yesterday's fashion. That fashion was for "abstract-expressionist" pictures, which recoiled from perspective and recognizable three-dimensional shapes, instead relied purely on vast, flat swirls and puddlings of paint, paint, paint. Painter Hultberg, who once studied with two leaders of the school, Clyfford Still and Mark Rothko, was among the first to rebel against it. While the fad was still at its height, he walked Manhattan's 57th Street with his canvases under his arm, vainly trying to interest the dealers...
...demand for casual clothes has also become a mainstay of the vast and complex fashion business. It is a risky business, yet all over the nation upwards of 14,500 women's-apparel manufacturers are taking the risk. They employ 450,000 people and turn out $6 billion worth of goods a year. Of this total, Claire McCardell (through Townley Frocks, Inc.) accounts for only about $1,800,000 (plus $100,000 in royalties from such sidelines as sunglasses, gloves and jewelry). But she is one of the biggest names in the business...
...City Councillor making it easy for people to break the law--especially voting people. And turning Harvard students out of their illegal parking places only to fill them with tax-payers would be abominable, positively sinful in fact. Clearly, parts of Cambridge should be turned into a vast parking lot, particularly that choice, but so-far misused land just northwest of Central Square...