Word: ansel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cold glass eye of Ansel Adams' camera, however, recorded precisely what it saw. The results helped explain why, since the perfection of photography, artists have come to scorn "naturalism" in painting, and wandered off into the bypaths of impressionism, abstraction and surrealism. When it came to making unbelievable realities believable, the camera had it all over the brush...
...governors of seven states have been heard from, as have businessmen, Congressmen, plain citizens, radio broadcasters, journalists (Wrote Edgar Ansel Mowrer. New York Post columnist and foreign affairs expert: "Never before, in my judgment, has any American magazine printed anything quite as important . . .")-In particular, the clergy has been strongly represented-the General Commission on Army and Navy Chaplains, for example, having requested 1,700 reprints for distribution to Armed Forces chaplains everywhere...
Persian leftists charged that the rebels were getting arms from "a foreign power." Britain indignantly denied any part in the revolt (causing New York Post Columnist Edgar Ansel Mowrer to exclaim: "then fate is pro-British"). Knowing Britons hinted that they would not be so foolish as to stir up a tribal revolt which would further weaken the Teheran Government, make it still more vulnerable to Russian pressure...
Transatlantic Piece. Last week, hot from Le Matin's old presses, came the first 50,000-copy edition of a new four-page tabloid, the Paris Post. Directing the operations were: 1) Editor Paul Scott Mowrer, dean of the writing Mowrers (others: brother Edgar Ansel and son Richard); 2) Homburg-hatted General Manager Robert Pell, late of the State Department. Their assignment: to publish a newspaper wholly independent of the New York Post but voicing the same New Dealish views...
Wisdom & Poison. Nudging these working newsmen for space were big-name specialists, with varying claims to international wisdom: Westbrook Pegler, George Fielding Eliot, Ludwig Bemelmans, Drew Pearson, Ely Culbertson, Orson Welles. Mixed in were avowed propagandists, ranging from Edgar Ansel Mowrer (who was pleased to call the conference "the most important human gathering since the Last Supper") to the New York Daily News's poison penman John O'Donnell. Even before the conference opened, O'Donnell said that "nothing ever was staged in this generation on such a scale of mass hypocrisy and global double cross...