Word: warmers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With the warmer spring weather, and with the northward migration of millions of birds, two of TIME'S writers are beginning to hear more questions about their favorite spare-time activity-prowling the woods and fields looking at birds, counting them, imitating their calls and studying their habits. For them it is an all-weather, year-round pastime which calls for old clothes, field glasses and an abundant knowledge of bird lore. They know, for instance, that a robin sings, not because he is happy, but because he has just staked out a claim to a clump of trees...
...Butler's symbolism made sense to the modern-minded jury, it brought outraged howls from conservatives, who wanted something a little warmer and more human. To most it looked like the same sterile brand of impersonal abstraction that so disappointed U.S. critics when the American regional prizewinners were announced two months ago. Then, only two of the eleven finalists bore much resemblance to flesh & blood; at London, all twelve top prizes went to abstractionists, among them three Americans...
...satellites of Saturn), which is somewhat bigger than the moon. Titan is too cold for life as the earth knows it, but it has an atmosphere containing much methane. Chemist Urey hopes to find that sunlight is slowly making organic compounds out of this simple gas. If Titan were warmer and bigger the process might already have clothed it with oxygen-and life...
Just a Fake. Some of her fans think Jo's singing has got "warmer" since her marriage early this year. Her explanation is less romantic: she wanted her voice to sound "rounder, fuller, deeper" and she spent years "polishing it like wood." Now she can sing two notes lower, suspects the "warmth" that people feel is just a deeper tone...
Perhaps the final volume of his three-volume autobiography, "Persons and Places," which he did not want published until after his death, will present the philosopher in warmer, if not more definite, tones...