Word: adding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alfred de Marigny, acquitted by a Nassau court in 1943 of the charge of killing his wealthy father-in-law, Sir Harry Oakes, ran an ad in the Montreal Star, offering for sale: "Entire worldly possessions . . . pending departure for parts unknown...
...Manhattan store advertised the "bottoms-up tumbler," a 2-oz. glass with a nude female figurine across its base. It was guaranteed to tip over immediately if placed on a flat surface. Said the ad: "You can't put it down until you drink it down-and the result is, of course, gaiety galore...
...Salvador Dali used a Christmas angel and Star of Bethlehem for a timely nylon ad-a painting hardly more offensive than the mawkish Madonnas and cute little representations of Jesus in most modern chromos, Sunday-school picture books and Christmas cards. Largely, they were hack work, to be judged in the same charitable spirit as cards featuring Santa Claus, Christmas trees and blazing hearths. Either as art or religion they did not pretend to much. As Sculptor Moore himself remarked, without a sigh: "The great tradition of religious art seems to have got lost completely in the present day." What...
...Truth: Molotov and his colleagues have denounced the U.S., ad nauseam, not for hindering German industry but for rebuilding it too well. Molotov has fiercely opposed U.S. proposals to raise the ceiling on Germany's industrial output...
...those interested, the usual good poetry appears, this time by John Ashbery and Ora May Hulli; same with the criticism, by Kenneth Koch ad Robert Hunter. Now, with a well-balanced issue, there is no need to say nice things about these lost. Of course the fiction has its flaws, but they are the same kind of shortcomings that can be found in the works of any good writer, not the puerile once generally found in college literary magazines. The excellence of this issue may be due to its inevitable growth, or it may be just an accident. Give...