Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the national frenzy for production has abated, Galbraith says, the Government can devote itself to the frontiers of education, science, world development. But these sonorous generalizations are left in the air. Galbraith has found it easier to sketch the problem than provide the answers...
...take long to think of Stuart Davis. He's the dean." Painter Davis created his own design, evolved an ingenious rig that allowed him to swing the huge canvas over a wooden roller like a rug hung up on a clothesline. He worked six months from his first sketch to the completed work, produced the largest single canvas he has ever done...
...putting the finishing touches on his design for the $5,000,000 Hotel Phoenicia. Three days later, Stone lounged in his bathrobe on a balcony of the St. George Hotel, took a long look at the blue Mediterranean and the snow-capped mountains of Lebanon, and began his first sketch for the U.S. New Delhi embassy, a commission he had received from the U.S. State Department three months before. The sketch (see cut), done quickly on the corner of a coffee-stained Manila envelope which Maria snatched from the wastebasket afterward, may well prove to be a historic architectural document...
...nuclear bomb that fell in Florence, S.C. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) had produced only a low-order explosion in the U.S., but it brought megaton repercussions in Britain. The Labor press broke into "we-told-you-so" editorials. Even the Conservative Daily Sketch had a suggestion about the H-bomb: "Keep it. But keep it on the ground...
...mistress becomes pregnant, James resolves to divorce Annette, but face to face with the supine, trusting invalid, he holds his tongue. The memorable story evokes a morbid doll's house in which death is pink with black edges, like some outrageous hybrid flower. Also outstanding: the thumbnail sketch of the prim, man-hating aunt, who all but says out loud that a marriage in which sex is prohibited by doctor's orders is a noncon-summation devoutly to be wished...