Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same sort of thing had been done before and better by the Europeans who originated it. A few temperate and tolerably fresh efforts were, nevertheless, visible. One was an Indian Concretion (see cut) by tall, silent, Socialite George L. K. Morris, whose inspiration for this pattern of rose, purple, black, green and orange forms came from objects in the Museum of the American Indian. Thoughtful critics believe that simple designs of this character hold the most promise for abstract art in the U. S. To the artist an abstraction may be either child's play with pretty shapes...
...LIVE UNDER A BLACK SUN-Edith Sit-well-Doubleday, Doran...
...Live Under a Black Sun, her first novel, combines all these quiddity qualities. It contains two interwoven stories...
...under the huge sun, joining together in a love that is the joining of the cloven maggot, engendering little hopes, little fears, throwing up small sprays of dust, spray by spray, till they have made a universe of dust." In vigorous poetic passages like this, I Live Under a Black Sun sometimes produces a darkly exciting agitation-something like the distress of chickens when an unseen hawk is overhead, or like the uneasiness of readers who do not know what the author is driving...
...relations regard him as the black sheep of the family, confess that "his poetry still fuddles a lot of us." At present Eliot is working on a modern play laid in an English country house, but with a substratum of Greek drama...