Word: barroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sincerity, of which Sinclair has plenty. The '20s were a crazy, tragicomic incubator of a catastrophic future. Sinclair makes that, and the grim lines which sharpen their terrible convergence a few years later, perfectly clear. He also makes his whole 859-page canvas as shamelessly ingratiating as a barroom nude...
Today he is more nearly extinct than the bison. Great horns still spring above barroom mirrors; a proud, sad specimen stands stuffed at the Fort Worth airport; Texans still like to call themselves "Longhorns," or "Texas Steers." But until last week the Longhorn was without much honor, or the lore that might bring it to him, save in his own country...
...pictured music, though, is another issue. Psych A students may still remember the experiment in which a composition was played for subjects who gave it a title according to the mental images it evoked in their minds. Anything from "Charge of the Light Brigade" to "Face on the Barroom Floor" might be applied to a work entitled by its composer "Sunset in Peaceful Valley." For some people music does not call out mental pictures: when it does they are different for each listener. The key to the complaints about "Fantasia" is that some critics do not like having the sketches...
...political campaign had been conducted in such a rarefied ideological atmosphere that it seemed, to many a voter, almost unAmerican. The whole thing is too intellectual, the voters seemed to say, and the hell with it. Last week affairs took a sharp down turn into the realm of barroom argument. Anybody could understand and appreciate such minor campaign issues...
...pledged himself to campaign on issues, not personalities. His Democratic opponent has implied that he is going to conduct his political campaign without making any political speeches. Last week, while Franklin Roosevelt was looking the other way, Secretary of the Interior Ickes let fly with an old-fashioned barroom blast at the Republican candidate ("the simple, barefoot Wall Street lawyer"- TIME, Aug. 26). Then, while Wendell Willkie kept his eyes strictly front, three hatchet men let fly at Mr. Ickes. Only conclusion that plain citizens could draw was that the lofty level of the 1940 campaign would be restricted...