Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...important as the President himself was the backdrop of popular reaction to his visits. His trip was a success because the American idea is a success; he had once and for all destroyed the myth that anti-Americanism prowls the world. The roaring welcomes defined no new world view of the U.S.; what they did was to dramatize the fact that the world likes an Americanism which day by day works for the quiet processes of emerging democracy and business opportunity (see BUSINESS), and stands up for its principles in actions ranging from the Marshall Plan and Korea, through...
...followed by an hour-and-a-half discussion of African problems, in which they agreed-as a communiqué later put it-that there is "cause of grave concern" because the Algerian problem has not been solved. With an effervescent Bourguiba tugging at his arm, Ike went off to view Tunisia's gifts to the President: a delicately boned little Persian-Arabian gelding called Ghali (Precious) and two yearling desert gazelles. The two Presidents then drove to the nearby American cemetery, past crowds of women who hailed Ike with a birdlike warbling that sounded like...
...three months, and termites abound. To cope with these problems, Owings designed a kind of concrete saddle over the ridge, anchored by eight caissons reaching down into bedrock. On this he secured a rigid A-frame, surrounded it with cantilevered balconies carried around the outside to exploit the spectacular view. For roof beams he bought 60-year-old redwood timbers of a demolished bridge. A four-car garage was dug partially out of bedrock, leaving a prehistoric Indian mound undisturbed. Says Owings: "No house can do more than snuggle into and grab hold of and hold on to a sheer...
Perhaps no playwright today is more gifted than Anouilh at creating little dialectical monologues or variety turns, at giving a mockingbird's-eye view of a given subject. Dotted with bright remarks, The Fighting Cock half a dozen times foams up into pointed or picturesque little scenes. But instead of a sense of fermentation beneath the foam, there is a good deal of dramatic flatness. It is not so much that the play finds no destination as that it fails to dramatize the very lack of one. What The Fighting Cock needed, in the face...
...what comes into his eyes. This "I gives his conversation and his drawings a startling immediacy. But his paintings are something else again: mysterious distillations "of long and apparently anxious thought. It took him two years to produce the 15 paintings of the present series, which will go on view next month at Manhattan's Midtown Gallery. The five reproduced on the following pages show the range and strangeness of his imaginings. ¶The Diver has as its setting a flooded rooftop on Pittsburgh's Polish Hill, with the Pennsylvania Railroad main line in the background...