Word: discussions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hals's fellow citizens found him "talented" only, and his latter-day reputation has suffered at the hands of art lecturers, who used to discuss his work as a foothill below the summit that Dutch art reached in Rembrandt. In reality, Hals stands halfway between Rembrandt's brooding darkness and Rubens' brilliant dash, also takes his place with them, in retrospect, as one of the best painters that ever lived...
...flyers, the space-age electronics stocks, which have soared giddily in recent months. Fairchild Camera & Instrument Corp. fell 23¾ points on the American Exchange. So great was the confusion when trading in Fairchild Camera was suspended temporarily that Exchange President Edward T. McCormick went onto the floor to discuss the break at Fairchild's trading post. Other electronics stocks followed; Texas Instruments fell 3⅞, IBM 2½. Zenith 4⅛, Litton...
...diplomacy," as dramatized by Vice President Richard M. Nixon's visit to Moscow [Aug. 3]. Why shouldn't the leaders of the nations meet, rub shoulders, wave fists and argue occasionally in public? Why shouldn't the peoples of the nations meet and discuss, argue and risk an occasional sock in the jaw? Altogether it is good, sharp, educational stuff for both us and the Russians...
...translator in the weeks ahead, Dr. Brothers will discuss why men get tattooed ("an ancient symbol of manliness, used by masculine men as an amulet, or by feminine men to attract attention"), why people are late ("rebellion against authority"), why some wives are extravagant ("She really wants to be refused; she's a masochist"). Not among the questions so far: why women become psychologists...
...effect, weakening Berlin and laying West Germany itself open to Moscow meddling. Early in the week Herter with lawyerlike logic spelled out Western objections, wound up by threatening to break off the talks unless Russia modified its stand. Gromyko then made a largely meaningless procedural concession, and agreed to discuss Berlin "simultaneously" with Russian plans for an All-German Commission. So eager is British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd to keep the talking going in Geneva so that he would not have to explain a breakoff to the House of Commons (before it adjourns July 30) that Lloyd persuaded his colleagues...