Word: walling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with a job that would have taken five men half a day working with buckets and pitchforks. He was ready to indulge his hobby. He returned to his farmhouse and poured himself another cup of coffee. While it cooled, he read a story on the "farm problem" in the Wall Street Journal. Carrying his cup and a cigarette, he walked into his living room, 40 feet long and beige-carpeted wall to wall. It was dominated at the far end by a two-story pipe organ flanked by two electronic organs and a grand piano. Farmer North sat down...
Backs to the Wall. Many abstractionists go to Dr. Bontzolakis. not only because they are a franc a dozen in Paris but also because his wife paints (as Colette Bonzo), and her friends take their troubles to him. Madame Bontzolakis' work is strictly representational-flowery examples hang in her husband's office...
...Bontzolakis is not alone in equating abstractionism with emotional disturbance. Arts quoted another Paris doctor: "In abstract art, the process of creation is ... the famous Rorschach test reversed." Said another: "Abstract art translates a disturbance which is perhaps only the anguish of these painters backed against the wall...
...chief of its executive committee, was named chairman of the board, succeeding Joseph A. Thomas, 52, who resigned. Widow of Financier-Diplomat Charles Ulrick Bay, Josephine Bay took over the business affairs of her husband after his death in 1955, became the first woman to reach a top Wall Street post when she became president and chairman of A. M. Kidder & Co., Inc. Now married to Oilman C. Michael Paul, who succeeds her as executive committee chief, she is the first woman to hold a major post in the shipping industry...
...Wall Street, the message of the steelmen and statisticians came loud and clear. In heavy trading that time and again left the high-speed ticker behind, National Steel gained 5¼ points (to a new high of 84), U.S. Steel picked up 4⅝ (to 944), Bethlehem, Armco and Youngstown all ran higher. And with them went the market. By week's end, shares on the Dow-Jones industrial average had gained 14.24 points to reach a new peak: 602.21, and a level nearly 40% higher than the recession low of 16 months...