Word: contrivedness
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"The biggest noise in an empty barrel for the year," said Clifton Fadiman in the New Yorker. "He is to me like God," wrote an awestruck Freshman in the Confidential Guide poll last spring. "The world's foremost sociologist," was the opinion of a professor in a midwestern university. In...
Bill Abrahams at his unusual best has written some brilliant poetry. "Lovers as Nihilists" is not in that category. The poem begins by scorning the artificiality "the contrived symbol the sly image the trick of metaphor" of the artist who reduces "passion to a poet's syllable." It ends by...
Zapp-Transocean veteran of South America and Africa-became Transocean head in 1938. Three months later he registered in the U. S. as a foreign agent-with significant omissions. One omission especially interested the grand jury-how Zapp contrived to distribute 60,000 copies of the First German White Paper...
On Man and Nature, commissioned by Rockefeller Center, Inc., as part of their program for sculptural and fresco decorations in Rockefeller Center's slab-sided skyscrapers, stocky, bob-haired Sculptor Milles had worked for three years. Milles got the idea for his singing statue from a line by German...
Lily studied piano at the Paris Conservatoire, took a prize at 13, later went on the Paris stage. Her extraordinary vocal cords contrived few public beeps, and no acrobatics at all, until after she was married-to August Mesritz, a wealthy, middle-aged Dutch lawyer and journalist. Husband Mesritz resolved...