Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME, April 19, states: "For some undetermined reason, the most intellectual men are apt to be baldest...
Over & over, Taft taunted Stassen with the line: "He never says in what respect he is more liberal than I am." It was an apt point, but not the kind of phrase to set off cheers. And it dramatically illustrated the differences between the two men. Stassen did not argue the point-he coolly implied that everyone knew he was a liberal and that Taft was a conservative -if not a reactionary. He shook thousands of hands with warmth and enthusiasm, answered hecklers so quickly and with such a disarming appearance of candor that he almost always stirred applause...
...whom Picasso sent that note (in 1936) lost no sleep over it. Jaime Sabartés, devoted as a friend, and fairly humble as a secretary to Picasso, knew that Pablo didn't really mean it, though he may have thought he did. Picasso was apt to do things like that in one of his blue periods...
...Portland Vase" was easily the most valuable and technically impressive piece in last week's show, but it would strike some 20th Century eyes as a pointless tour de force. Moderns were more apt to be impressed by the startling modernity of Wedgwood's own early designs. As the exhibition catalogue put it, "He realized the importance of what is now termed functionalism ... he insisted that lids should fit, that spouts should pour, and that handles should be comfortable to the hand...
...with dumb and unquestioning adoration. Certainly he has brought the music of Beethoven, Schubert, Wagner and Verdi to life as no other man has. He is now a white-haired little man of 81, and when a human being reaches that age, his critics, remembering his finer hours, are apt to temper their judgments with mercy...