Word: beginning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mirror and a hank of Eve's hair. Mirrors, he explains, "are the supreme illusion; they mock both the viewer and the painting." Cohen teaches at Northwestern University, talks well about other men's art but bogs down when it comes to his own nightmarish visions. "I begin with something only half formed," he says, waving his hands. "I believe that in painting, you just have to step...
...rise is that U.S. industry rolled into 1959 with more than $18 billion in capital funds that can be invested in inventories or plants. Industries have piled inventories so high (adding at an annual rate of $10.4 billion in the second quarter alone) that economists feel they will now begin to channel their funds into new plants to meet consumers' rising demands. That does not mean that the inventory boom has spent itself; inventories have moved up close to the peak level of January 1957, but sales have moved up even faster...
...author gives his readers plenty of opportunity to think in cosmic terms. In Childhood's End, one of the novels, the U.S. and the Russians are racing to launch the first true spaceship. Countdowns are about to begin when dark vessels loom in the sky above. The Overlords have arrived. With firm benevolence-and without showing their physical forms-they enforce a kind of pax stellarum. When the Overlords finally reveal themselves, dark thoughts filter up in man's mind. The visitors are winged, horned, 12 ft. tall and have tails. What is their mission? Are they supreme...
YUGOSLAV BOND PAYMENTS on $25 million worth of dollar bonds, in default since 1939, will begin soon with $500,000 annual payments under "temporary arrangement." Yugoslavia seeks to restore its credit rating so it can borrow privately in U.S. money market...
Invented. As the carnival death watch continues, townspeople chained in the Platonic cave of illusion begin "to break through to the heart of the dark mystery which was themselves." By the time Isaac has at last reported that Jasper is dead, a number of astonishing and preposterously pat character changes have taken place. A Greek restaurateur, sexually disturbed because his fat wife is not Jean Harlow, has begun to look upon her with fond normalcy. Jasper's half-illiterate old man, a skirt chaser and Homeric hell raiser in his bachelorhood, experiences a blinding illumination and begins to sound...