Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...answer to the question on TIME'S [Sept. 15] cover-"Who wants the New Look?"-is appropriately contained in the word printed immediately beneath: "Business...
...spite of its romantic name, the Atlantis did not search for relics of lost Atlantis, the fabled continent which the ancient Greeks believed sank beneath the Atlantic Ocean thousands of years ago. Most geologists do not take the Atlantis myth seriously...
...many at the auction, Doré's paintings looked like tremendously outsized Sunday school chromos darkened by varnish and dirt. In the general murk, Moses could be discerned gesticulating at Pharaoh, a sad-faced monk daydreamed over an organ, pagan gods fell in a heap beneath a cross, and Paolo and Francesca embraced in hell. Critics wondered how the great illustrator could possibly have turned out such daubs...
...exhaust themselves exploring the problem of war guilt, without coming to many unarguable conclusions. Such an attempt would be eminently worth everybody's attention. Even Frieda's stock characters and their stock attitudes could amount to something; but only if an intelligent attempt were made to get beneath their surfaces...
...roisterous, freewheeling and often very amusing story about a four-flushing circus owner. It straddles two generations of easy-money mischief and scalps a whole zoo full of roguish characters. It is as blusteringly improbable as a W. C. Fields movie, and has some of the same appeal. Beneath the bluster, Gus the Great skillfully satirizes the great American success story...