Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when it was possible for an extravert to be a great painter, and for a great painter to be a great success. He took every advantage of it. He was a cagey businessman, among businessmen who knew and valued good painting when they saw it. He was an apt amateur diplomat in a day when diplomacy was not quite a profession. He was a prodigious worker (average: four to five days per painting, all his life), and he ordered his life to that end. He never drank nor gambled, seldom lunged at his models. He suffered less mental anguish than...
...other blot is apt to frighten subjects who are unhappy or unstable, but "normal" people merely call it a bearskin rug or an animal's skin. Schizoid personalities sometimes see a man's face in the dark shadows, but sexually frustrated women see a gorilla or some other strong masculine figure, chasing them...
People who make quick, obvious answers and pass on to the next card are apt to be "conformist" types, anxious to be popular and avoid trouble. Those who see each blot as several different pictures are likely to have active and vivid emotions, while those who see shapes only in small details are often repressed...
...There is apt to be very little more jute (or burlap, which is made from jute) for the U.S., and no abaca (Manila hemp). Those facts may sound esoteric to the layman, but they have the U.S. Government-and all who know about jute and hemp-in a frenzy...
...Nazis know what they want, and they are willing to do anything and everything to get it. We cannot, in the nature of things, set up definite and monolithic objectives. The democratic process is not instantaneous nor apt to produce rigid doctrines. But once we admit that the war must produce a new society, and that the conduct of the war must determine the nature of the peace, we shall be on the way to a gradual working out of the problems that brought about the war and created the enemies we face...