Word: richness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Live Along. Paddy still yearned to get rich, but meantime, harried by friends who already want to borrow money from him, he scooped up his family, padlocked his hogans, leaving only the pigs, and headed for the hills. He left behind a crudely lettered cardboard sign: "Please don't take anything out of my place and live along [leave alone] my pig . . . From Paddy Martinez...
...artist takes more pains over details than does Andrew Wyeth. If a picture is rich enough in detail, he figures, it can be dramatically simple in its overall effect. He once devoted three quarters of a painting to a grassy hillside, spent a month and a half brushing in each grass blade separately "to make it come toward you, that surge of earth." Perfectionist though he is, Wyeth does not aim to please. The warmth, charm and dazzle of color are foreign to him; so are rhythmic arabesques of line. Using egg tempera and tiny brushes, he paints mostly with...
...first of four $100,000 & up races, which top California's long winter season of rich purses, was run at Hollywood Park last week. Fanfared as the "Race of the Year," the Hollywood Gold Cup offered bettors a star-packed quandary...
Reuther wanted much more than that. Regulation W, said he, was a "rich man's racket" which made it impossible for the workingman to buy a car. With no real documentation to back him up, Reuther said that the "meat-ax approach" of Regulation W, plus cutbacks in critical materials, would throw no less than 321,000 auto workers out of work. Reuther had a meat-ax approach of his own: slap immediate controls on everything except wages...
...Upton Sinclair showed that he was capable of a change of pace. Sticking to his promise to ditch his ubiquitous, ten-novel hero, Lanny Budd, he wrote Another Pamela; or, Virtue Still Rewarded, a sly gibe at rich, talky parlor liberals seen through the wide eyes of an ingenuous housemaid. His literary model: 18th Century Novelist Samuel Richardson's famed Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded...