Word: wreath
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never seen the important examples of the art heritage in any way but reproduction," he says. "Egypt was a book to them; so was Europe." The museum began collecting samples from the great periods in history: Egyptian art back to 3,000 B.C., a richly-tooled gold funeral wreath from ancient Greece, a Chinese urn from the Han dynasty, a fine green glaze beaker from the 15th century Persia. In painting, Chillman stuck to such safe and sure old masters as Fra Angelico Bellini, Rembrandt, such French impressionists as Cézanne and Renoir, and a gallery of popular Americans...
Mixed Feelings. The U.S. press and people reacted with mixed feelings. Ex-President Harry Truman remarked: "I am sorry to hear of [Stalin's] trouble ... I'm never happy over anybody's physical breakdown." Much more typical was a Chicago restaurateur who put a black wreath in his window, with a sign below reading: "Joe's gone. Vodka on the house." The New York Daily News, as usual, called a spade a meat-ax: "Jailbird son of a drunken cobbler . . . in essence, a backwoods plug-ugly and killer." Less crudely, but no less clear...
Bright, green, genuine spring warmed the South. Atlanta was abloom with narcissus, forsythia and bridal wreath. Pitchers sweated in baseball training camps from Florida to California. And Mobile held its annual Azalea Trail Parade...
...Messiah which some of us thought." Socialists must not press state ownership too far, since "the state under the most democratic theory and practice will become too huge, too cumbersome . . . A completely noncompetitive society would be dull and stagnant . . . Socialism should try to stress competition for the laurel wreath rather than the sack of gold . . . But it should recognize that material progress has been furthered by competition for material reward . . . The concept of the class conflict basic to Marxism needs modification. Marx thought that the lines of division between workers and owners were becoming steadily clearer. This, however...
...fortnight ago in Tokyo's Popeye pachinko parlor, an employee stopped one Kaichi Daijo in the midst of a winning streak. Outraged, Daijo stabbed the employee to death. Daijo was in jail last week, charged with murder. At the vic tim's funeral services appeared a large wreath of paper flowers inscribed: "An inch of our heart goes with you." It was from the boys at the Popeye parlor...