Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Your Art article [TIME, Aug. 10] about Harvard's model forest says that the leaves were "etched out of paper-thin sheets of copper picked up with a magnet...
...What if we asked them to send their Art Museum at Volunteer Park up here, or to pack up their lift locks and shoot them over to us by air mail...
Simone Simon, 19, was so thoroughly in dulged by her father, a French engineer, that in Madagascar, where he is running a graphite mine, he allowed her to roam the streets with two cub panthers on a leash. Back in Paris she went to art school, followed the well-worn course into musical comedy bits. One day W. Tourjansky, free-lance director, saw her in a street cafe, addressed a soft remark to her. She slapped his face. Impressed, he tested her, cast her as Pierrette in Chanteur Inconnu opposite Opera Singer Lucien Muratore. She made Le Roi des Palaces...
...lives of some 50 writers and painters, a poetic evocation of post- Revolutionary Boston, an almost reverential tribute to the genius of Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau. It begins in 1815, when U. S. writers were largely dominated by European standards of taste and when there was virtually no U. S. art; it ends in 1865 when the Civil War had already put an end to the quiet way of life that gave rise to New England culture. In these 50 years the greatest literature that the U. S. can claim was produced. The purpose of Critic Brooks's history...
...wrote, their changing opinions as they and the times changed. He has paraphrased their own writings in building up his pictures of them, so that the book is not "original" in the usual sense of the term so much as it is a beautifully-conceived mosaic for which the art of an entire period has contributed the material. That it is written in as graceful prose as any U. S. writer can claim is a tribute to Mr. Brooks's taste. That he can quote the source, in some novel, diary, letter or essay, "for every phrase...