Word: thought
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Yves Montand. Purring that he was "amazed and flattered," and full of assurance that he would never toss his eleven-year marriage to Actress Simone Signoret "overboard for one performance," Montand did make one Gallically candid revelation: "Marilyn is a simple girl, without any guile," he said. "I once thought she was sophisticated, like some of the other ladies I have known. Had Marilyn been sophisticated, none of this ever would have happened...
Fate & Teddy Roosevelt. Epstein himself thought his hauntmg Social Consciousness (see cut) "one of my major works." In the center is the seated figure of "Fate itself" To Fate's left stands Mother Earth clutching the racked body of a man-"the man child returning to its eternal mother," Epstein explained. And the right is the compassionate Christ offering succor to crumpled humanity...
...Special Soul. Trained for a piano virtuoso's career, Moore originally thought that an accompanist was "a sort of caddie who carried the violinist's fiddle." But when he was 24, he accompanied Tenor John Coates, became fascinated by the challenge of fitting music to text, and soon decided that accompanists "have an infinitely richer life than the soloist." Today he adds: "Even if I had the technique and virtuosity of Horowitz or Rubinstein, I would prefer to do what I am doing...
None of the supplier countries were happy about the higher tariffs. Italian textile manufacturers protested and the British, whose exports to the U.S. have been dropping (see chart), thought they were being penalized for their quality fabrics, which they contend do not compete with U.S. fabrics. U.S. textile manufacturers, in turn, feared the tariff might not be high enough to slow the influx of foreign fabrics...
...Religion and Philosophy. In 1952 an 883-page volume of his writings, The Philosophy of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, was published as part of "The Library of Living Philosophers." Since then, 23 world-known scholars have contributed a volume of stimulating critical essays dealing with various aspects of Radhakrishnan's thought--his contributions to social philosophy, to modern religion and mysticism; his influence on contemporary Hinduism and his place in 20th Century philosophy...