Word: contente
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year the U. S. discovered winter. Snow, for centuries man's enemy, became suddenly his friend. Skiing, for years a nonsensical fad, became overnight a national sport. Last week, not content with moving himself outdoors, man moved winter indoors. Hirelings in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, accustomed to the endless transformations of this chameleon edifice, stood aghast as they watched it become something it had never been before : a snowy mountain top. From the centre of the arena floor to the top of the gallery-so close to the roof a skier had to crouch...
...Pendergast boys, brawny Irish Democrats, got their start in Kansas City politics 40 years ago. Easy-going Brother Michael was content to spend his life holding minor city jobs, running the rough-&-tumble Tenth Ward. Brother James, a saloonkeeper, took the First Ward for his domain. Brother Thomas was the ambitious one. Starting out under Jim, who died in 1911, he thrust up and out until he was undisputed boss not only of Kansas City but of all Missouri, and as such a prime power in the national Democracy...
...Excerpt: "Surrealism rests in the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of association neglected heretofore ; in the omnipotence of the dream and in the disinterested play of thought. . . . We who have not given ourselves to processes of filtering, who through the medium of our work have been content to be the silent receptacle of many echoes . . . are perhaps yet serving a much nobler cause." Surrealism in plainer language is an attempt to explore the subconscious mind and to evoke emotional reactions through the illogical juxtaposition of objects. The difference between the cubists and present day abstract painters...
...demonstrated, however, that the underpainting was probably in Copley's own bold style, but that the picture had subsequently been damaged and had been touched up by a later artist, who was not content to fill in the gaps, . . . but repainted the whole surface...
...George. Then there are Shirley Ross and Ray Milland, who in addition to further complicating things for Jack Benny, supply the indispensable young love. Miss Ross, in acting very badly and running away, gives Martha Raye, the substitute, a chance to be undignified and unladylike to her heart's content. And Bob (Bazooka) Burns overshadows the whole thing with his bucolic wisdom and his knack of getting in where he isn't wanted. Considered as vaudeville rather than as drama, "The Big Broadcast" is quite acceptable entertainment...