Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Clear & Teary. Last month the Corcoran put on a show to put the protests in perspective: a selection of some 59 paintings most representative of a century (1830-1930) of U.S. painting, set side by side with what contemporary critics had said about the works. The show's title was to the point: "De Gustibus . . ." Double the usual crowds went to the Corcoran...
Last week, from the evidence of the De Gustibus show, it appeared that popular art appreciation in the U.S. was lagging about 60 years behind contemporary U.S. artists. Visitors to the exhibit picked William M. Harnett's morning-clear still life, Old Models (1892), as their favorite painting in the show, and gave second place to Thomas Hovenden's Breaking the Home Ties (1890), a teary scene of family parting complete with sad-eyed Rover. The 1890s were voted the favorite decade, the 1880s next, and the 1930s (where the modernist vote was massed) third...
...Helpful Agencies." Birkhead summed up: "It seems clear that Guy Emery Shipler-perhaps in the belief that he has found the only alternative or antithesis to the Vatican-has gone over to the side of the fronters ... He could not be more helpful to the Kremlin policy if he were a member of the party ... By his gesture of support to countless Communist organizations and his championing of a line consistent only in that it protects Stalin's foreign policy, Guy Emery Shipler and his magazine are very helpful agencies by which the Communist Party does its work...
After two years of storm, the air began to clear last week for the aircraft and airline industries...
...time U.S. film studios in 14 years-was at last making good. Under able President Arthur B. Krim, a 38-year-old lawyer who tackled his job with virtually no movie experience, E.L. has become a model of efficient, cost-cutting operation. It has kept down overhead by steering clear of long-term contracts with high-priced stars and directors. Periodically, it has shut down until it could prepare four to six films for almost simultaneous (and thus economical) shooting. On the average, it has managed to squeeze about three pictures (best example: the well-made quickie...