Word: alienable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That career has run against the current of modern art. The stepson of a rich St. Petersburg banker, Berman was left homeless at 18 by the Russian Revolution. Settling in Paris, he was enchanted by the "Blue Period" paintings of another alien, Picasso, 18 years older than Berman. By that time, restless "Papa" Picasso was gaining notoriety as a cubist; but Berman, along with his brother Léonid, and his friends Tchelitchew and Bérard, thought cubism something to keep clear of. Their idea was to go on from where Picasso's Blue Period left...
...Especially harmful are the so-called 'wild' jazz bands, consisting of a piano, violin, accordion and drum . . . Instead of the popular Soviet songs . . . they reproduce melodies filled with tavern melancholy and alien to the Soviet people...
...this might have gone unnoticed if Marks and Littell had not complained so after the Office of Alien Property Custodian seized Hyalsol in 1943. Marks and Littell were left in charge. The matter might have ended there if the pair had not sued OAP in 1946 for the return of the company. Then the Government dug deeper and came up with the indictment...
...years passed, they noted that a new Indian history was growing under their eyes. The slapdash, casual rule of the old East India Company "nabobs" was being tightened into the more efficient but far more inflexible system of imperial government. India was dividing into two worlds-that of the alien ruler and that of the native ruled; and day by day it grew more difficult for men like Henry to "belong to both...
After a military victory that Hitler demanded but didn't get, Metropolitan Basso Alexander Kipnis and Cousin Leonid, who had bought negatives of the film from the U.S. Alien Property Custodian, made a distribution deal with United Artists. Last week, under the title Kings of the Olympics, Leni's work began its first general U.S. showing. Leni would scarcely recognize her handiwork...