Word: barren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ironbound esthetic wheel. At the peak of Partisan Review sophistication stands Art Critic Morris, whom practically nothing pleases. "It is something less than an exaggeration," writes Critic Morris with his characteristic faint shudder, "to state that the painting and sculpture being 'encouraged' in America ... is more esthetically barren and tasteless than anything that the world has previously produced...
...Alice Spencer Geddes Lloyd, Boston socialite, author, magazine writer, newspaper editor, ardent suffragette and freethinker. She had fled to Knott County to get over a nervous breakdown. And she got over it. She stayed on, with $10 cash founded Caney Creek Community Center on Humpty 's 153 barren acres...
...about Term III. Ahead of him were months of arduous labor in the White House: the burden of operating a vast, peaceable democracy in a war-gripped world, the problem of holding together the sagging New Deal. Tanned, re-toughened, in bouncing spirits, his February melancholy and his barren fishing luck forgotten, he took train for Washington ready to fight the G. O. P. and the White House air-conditioning for at least eleven more months...
After his friend Freud died last fall, 79-year-old Eugen Steinach puttered dismally about his Zurich refuge, giving hormone injections to barren cows. Deprived of his laboratory, he cried in despair: "What am I doing with my reactivated life?" Last week he tried to prove that in the past he had done great things. He published his first book addressed to laymen, an elegant volume called Sex and Life, garnished with pictures of dissected rats, rejuvenated dogs, and handsome Eugen Steinach...
With finer imagery than that of the better-known "Mountaineer Poet," Jesse Stuart, Still makes his child's world as bright as a new dime. It was not a world in which dimes were common. On the barren slope above Blackjack Mine, Bracky Baldridge owned a garden patch, a shack with puncheon floors, a black birch tree. When the mines along the creek closed one March, Bracky's no-good cousins, Harl and Tibb Logan, came to live with the Baldridges. The dried beans ran out fast. Then soft, lazy Uncle Samp came and stayed, his thin grey...