Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Creating at Yaddo last week, at mid-season of the colony's twelfth year, was a typical group of writers and artists who have given substance to Katrina Trask's vision. But whether or not they fitted Katrina's romantic conception was an open question. By contrast with aristocratic Katrina and the elegant capitalistic surroundings she provided, most of the season's 27 guests stood out in striking left-wing contrast: Poet Kenneth Fearing (Angel Arms, Poems), Critic Newton Arvin (Hawthorne), Novelists Joseph Vogel (At Madame Bonnard's), Leonard Ehrlich (God's Angry...
This was in contrast to zealous Nazi efforts a few months ago to keep secret their army's preparations for marching into Austria. Last week, for the first time since the World War, Germany called up for maneuvers not only army units but also reservists-the newly trained classes of 1934, 1935 and 1936, plus units of the Landwehr, including men in their late 30s and early 40s, some World War veterans...
Unfortunately, the resemblance between this picture and its classic predecessors is less real than apparent. In My Man Godfrey and The Awful Truth, humor bubbled from the contrast between the essential sanity of the people involved and the dangerous eccentricity of their behavior. Four's A Crowd, by presenting its people as fundamentally irresponsible, robs their irresponsibility of comic impact and turns what might have been high-tension comedy into mildly funny farce. Best shot: Errol Flynn, having hurriedly put an iron gate between himself and the great Danes, pausing to pull one of their tails between the bars...
...witnessed the phenomenon, this miracle does not seem possible. It would appear that if this greasy, slimy, newborn infant, who looks as if he had been rescued from a sewer, were not immediately cleaned up, he would smell like a dead fish in 24 hours. What a contrast to behold him a few hours later looking fresh and clean...
...that it might just as well have been secret. New York City's whitewings had just cleaned up 1,900 tons of paper thrown into the streets in honor of an Irishman who had managed to hit Ireland. The clocklike navigation of the Brandenburg's, crew, in contrast, was feebly cheered by only 2,000 people...