Word: abstract
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thought, sets out to explain our "grotesque underestimation of the true profundity of Communist thought" and finishes by making a severe attack on modern rationalism. He believes that Communism can be rejected only on emotional grounds and not rational ones, since the "Communist state is only the abstract social expression of the actual or potential situation inside each rationalist...
...Rose of Texas was on a gaslit stage back in Civil War days, with drummer girls marching to its stirring beat. Love Is a Many Splendored Thing took place in a many-splendored pastoral scene (with a dismounted Gisele Mackenzie in riding clothes). Love and Marriage was in an abstract setting of sky and bliss, concluding with a wedding procession. The Shifting, Whispering Sands had Snooky Lanson looking like an obbligato against a film showing "the beauty and terror of the desert." Moments to Remember (a comedy number) went to Africa, where a couple of big-game hunters were popped...
...show brings sports paintings up to date with Fletcher Martin's picture of Heavyweight Champion Rocky Marciano bloody-nosed after the second Ezzard Charles fight. And with Elaine de Koonings' wild scramble titled Basketball Players, the show makes another surprising point: even some of the abstract expressionists are sport fans...
...municipal election campaign that ended yesterday, every candidate for the City Council promised firm support for the Urban Renewal Plan. But opposing slums and juvenile delinquency in the abstract is like opposing sin; only concrete actions count. Before time runs out on the Federal grant, the new City Councilors should join with City Manager Curry and produce some real progress toward urban renewal. As soon as possible they should appoint a general supervisor and establish a housing authority, so that the embryonic Redevelopment Authority will know where and how to start work. If these steps are taken and the necessary...
...custom of painting sweet and simple pictures has dropped out of fashion. Styles in art keep changing just as they do in architecture, wallpaper and automobiles." Even with the most grotesque abstractions "one sometimes begins to like these paintings, just as someone may learn to appreciate a homely woman because of her fine spirit. A modern abstract artist no longer paints his mother from a particular spot in the kitchen, at a particular hour in the afternoon when the light falls on her face with a certain glow. Instead, he paints a composite idea of his mother to show...