Word: contentedness
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As a turnabout, Kootz proudly arranged to show his U.S. abstractionists in Paris' swank Maeght gallery. This week the Paris show closed in a hurt hush. The critics had not been kind. Said the influential Arts: "Is this exhibition ... to show us that abstract painting is no longer a...
As the thousands of well-heeled winter tourists poured in, Canadians, who sometimes complain about their cold country, were richly contented.
Idealism, in the popular sense, was in full fashion among pre-Pearl Harbor students. It both pricked and tickled a contented and complacent America in the form of New Dealers, Willkie-ites, isolationists, prophets of the Golden Age of Science, the avant-garde of the "truly American" culture--it was...
While the first issue does contain an ill-considered article on the alleged demise of power politics, there are no notable weaknesses among its political pieces. Outstanding are Frederick Houghteling's review of Hya Ehrenburg's recent series of articles for "Harper's" and a report on the current civil...
Just in time for the Christmas trade, this tiny book contains perhaps the nearest thing to piety in Mencken's writings. It is a moral tale, told in the Sage of Baltimore's redolent and contented prose. The story-originally printed in the New Yorker-attests to the...