Word: making
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...delivered an oration: "A society which doesn't provide work for all its components is a cursed society. Cursed are those who hold reins of power in this cursed society. Cursed are those who reject with armed violence, with murder and massacre the humblest request a man can make: a request to work . . . These acts cry to God for vengeance...
...Rome, a visiting British M.P. wondered why those who held the reins of power in Modena had not tried to stop the strikers without shooting. "Why do you never use water hoses?" he asked Minister of the Interior Mario Scelba. "They make people ridiculous without hurting them." Answered Scelba: "You see, we have no water in so many places...
...first time in the 42 years of his reign, Sweden's King Gustaf V, 91, was too ill to make his annual speech at the opening of Parliament. The speech was read by his son, bespectacled Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf...
...What is a face?" Williams wrote. "What has it always been, even to the remotest savagery? A battleground. Slash it with sharp instruments, rub ashes into the wound to make a keloid; daub it with clays, paint it with berry juices. This thing that terrifies us, this face upon which we lay so much stress is something they have always wanted to deform, by hair, by shaving, by every possible means. Why? To remove it from the possibility of death by making of it a work...
...board. Such moderns as Picasso, Matisse, Braque and Rouault set the fashion for flatter pictures. "Leonid" (real name Léonide Berman) is a 53-year-old painter who flouts that fashion. His work, on exhibition in a Manhattan gallery last week, was as spacious as he could make...