Word: walls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...around. These days Raymond Chandler's Eye seldom travels from L.A., but like his original, Carey maintains the air of an adventurer, a man who might take one drink too many and wind up m Singapore with a full beard. Up from Hackensack, N.J., with stopovers as a Wall Street runner and a Jones Beach lifeguard, Carey has long been an admirer of Chandler's books, is openly proud of the fact that Chandler told him he would make a great Marlowe. What Chandler (who died last March) would think of the rest of the TV show...
...paintings hang on the curved wall, two or four to a partition. Towards the top, where the curvature makes flush hanging impossible, Museum Curator James Sweeney has devised metal rods which project the paintings into the air, causing them seemingly to float in space. Arranging the pictures was necessarily an imposing task; not only must they co-ordinate with their neighbors, but also with those on opposite walls...
...Wall Street's bull market has also brought other troubles-among them the revival of the oldtime boiler shop.* Most boiler shops are hit-and-run operations that fold up before the SEC can swing into action. But in the past year the commission, largely through its New York regional office under Paul Windels Jr., has cracked down hard. In fiscal 1959, the SEC's total number of injunctions against brokers and security dealers doubled over the previous year to in, and its number of criminal actions tripled to 45. "We'd do more," says SEC Chairman...
...Films. Most Wall Streeters agree that the SEC is understaffed. It has a staff of only 1,000 and a budget of $8,100,000, well down from the peak staff of 1,683 in 1941, when its job was much smaller. But Congress has repeatedly ignored SEC requests for a bigger staff...
...protest verse of the late 19th century. He was briefly drawn to the "Futurists." with their sprung rhythms and staccato, telegraphic style. But in many ways he also harks back to the English romantics. With them-Blake, Shelley, Keats-Pasternak sees nature as the handwriting on God's wall, or at least as the outward sign of an unseen and perhaps mystical order of things. And with the romantics, Boris Pasternak shares the belief that the creative imagination is itself divine, sharing in God's own creativity. A famed and difficult poem of Pasternak's, called...