Word: woode
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...depict Adam and Eve (see cut) Brancusi returned not to full-bloom Renaissance goddesses but to woman as a primitive symbol of fertility, and Adam as the product of his primitive tools, axed out of wood with a neck suggesting both a tree trunk and a wine press. In a narrow smoothly polished pebble, Brancusi sees the genesis of the fish form; expanded in his streamlined Fish, done in blue-grey marble, it becomes the prototype of all fish, hovering in space as if water were freshly washing past...
...They saw a 472-seat auditorium decorated in 23-karat gold leaf and equipped for CinemaScope and Vista-Vision, a walnut-paneled conference room with a large pear-shaped table, an executives' dining room with television and canned music, a coffee room, private shower baths for top officials, wood-paneled offices for all bigwigs. There were oil paintings, lobbies walled in Aurisina Fiorito marble, ashtrays costing $7.50 apiece on the conference tables, and bronze boxes for outgoing mail ($17.50 apiece) on the executives' handcrafted desks. Cost: $5,000,000, paid in cash out of the teamsters...
...there is a large vote," Wood said, "Hynes should win." But, he added, whoever wins will have to deal with "problems and troubles as acute as those in any city in the country...
Voters in Boston's mayoralty election tomorrow will choose either a "not strongly partisan candidate"--incumbent John B. Hynes--or State Senator John E. Powers, an "ardent Democrat," Robert C. Wood, assistant professor of Government, said last night...
...Wood pointed out that Powers' attack was typical of the type of campaign being waged by both sides. He praised Hynes' administration and his ability to "maintain strong Democratic backing and the respect of Republicans...