Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fate of such intentions has seldom been illustrated better than in the shallow frissons and Grand Guignol giggles with which swank Parisians responded to it. Contributors of the 48 paintings included Picasso, with his nightmarish Dreams & Lies of Franco (TIME, Dec. 27); Salvador Dali, with The Specter of Sex Appeal, in which a nai've little boy regards an enormous figure, half-flesh, half-bone, straddling an idyllic background; Andre Masson, with Dilettantes of Corpses, showing gowned ecclesiastics leaving a corpsy battlefield with expressions of pious approval; Frans Masereel, with News event, a horror panorama of agonized soldiers, screaming...
...this is done, one will like George O'Donnell's poem "Evening to Morning" for its simple but convincing imagery; he will think Laughlin's own poetry too simple, too bare. Because of its vivid picture, like a penetrating flash, "Mannikin," by Francis Fergusson, has strong appeal. On the other hand, one used to conventional poetry will tire of playing anagrams with the poems of Cummings; he will laugh at Robert Fitzgerald's surrealism, which Laughlin explains as the principle of redefinition by incongruity...
...Martin McBohin, a Wartime Marine sergeant. Last week Martin McBohin stuck adhesive tape over the offensive lettering and was promptly arrested for defacing a license plate. Sure that he was standing on his rights, Objector McBohin, up for trial this week, roundly declared: "I'm prepared to appeal the case to the highest court." Indignantly he added: "Next thing you know the State will compel us to advertise someone's corn flakes." More serious to traffic experts was the fact that in order to get the "World's Fair" lettering on the new plates, license numbers...
Liberal Governor George Howard Earle's hand-picked chairman of Pennsylvania's cinema censorship board is Peggy Palmer, whose late husband A. Mitchell Palmer, as U. S. Attorney General, was the greatest Red-baiter of his day. In a hearing of an appeal against the board's banning of the Soviet-made Baltic Deputy, Mrs. Palmer last week showed her particolors. Her testimony: "The acting was the most magnificent I have seen since I've been on the board. ... I don't like Communism, so the picture is not the type I want...
...chair of poetry" of the Congressional Library, proposed as his first official act the building of "a singing tower," meaning a place where poets' work would be safe against "the horrors of the hour, Beast passion and the lust for power." At the end of a three-verse appeal which began...