Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hearts and minds. The Marshall Plan had originally aimed to capture their hearts through their stomachs. But the cold hammering away on the plan's economic aspects had left it with about as much political appeal to an Italian peasant as a page from the Statistical Abstract. U.S. propaganda agencies abroad, limited in funds, were ineffectual. The U.S. spoke-when it spoke-from the other side of the Atlantic. Russia hollered right down the chimney...
...Patient. With crushed flowers, powdered rock, pollen, charcoal and corn meal, the Navajos invented a highly abstract way of picturing their even more abstract ideas of the forces that move nature. Their paintings, which their underprivileged, impoverished descendants (TIME, Nov. 3) still produce in quantity, have nothing to do with art as civilization knows it. They are not merely for art's sake, like most modern painting, nor are they done in a spirit of reverence, like early Greek and early Renaissance art; and they seldom vary with the individual artists-who are always medicine men. Navajo sand paintings...
...been the work of a Vienna-born American named Henry Koerner (TIME, April 28). In Manhattan's Whitney Museum last week, Koerner stole the show again. The Whitney's Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting was largely a dance of painted shadows: pictures that were either flatly abstract or academically pictorial. By contrast, Koerner's dramatic microcosm of modern life, which he called Vanity Fair, had the power of a compressed reality...
Young Jacob Lawrence was shy, but he felt at home; he had long ago decided to become a painter. His mother had encouraged him when he was still a kid: "It kept me off the streets." Within a few years, his flaming, semi-abstract pictures of Negro life hung in half a dozen top U.S. museums, and won him three Rosenwald fellowships. Only 30 now, Jacob Lawrence is the nation's No. 1 Negro artist...
TIME's very succinct and clear abstract of my treatment of arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) with 2½% ether [TIME, Nov. 17] has produced a panicky deluge of letters from diabetics. For the sake of my peace of mind and the self-assurance and relief of hundreds of diabetics, please note that...