Word: cool
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Valentine Gallery, all done in the last two years, showed a quality which is rare in art and which sometimes starts more enduring fashions than Treasure Hunts: the intelligent mastery and transforming use of a great past style. In this case it was the so-called "archaic" coolness and clarity of form of 16th-century French painting, after the great portraitist, François Clouet. The line in Artist Guevara's pictures seems almost engraved; her forms are firmly rounded, spick-&-span, in cool, grey-blue space. Most impressive: the Seated Young Woman (see cut), plump and brown...
...sensuous space, serenity and golden sublimation, visitors could look on Titian's Lady at the Mirror. Across the room Veronese's Venus at her Toilet turned her opulent, cool and massive back. A pig-eyed, swollen-bellied little courtesan appeared in Lucas Cranach's delicately painted Nymph Reposing. From the 17th Century came a dusky Landscape with Nymphs and Satyrs by France's great Nicolas Poussin. How nude painting became stage prettiness and erotic folderol in 18th-and early 19th-Century France was almost too amply demonstrated in pictures by Watteau, Boucher, Baudouin, Girodet and Prud...
...main emphasis of his Holmes of the Breakfast-Table is on Holmes as a forerunner of the moderns-the cool-headed doctor who not only wrote a medical classic on puerperal fever, but occasionally, as in Elsie Venner, anticipated Freud; the science popularizer whose Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table came nearer to Darwin than to the Transcendentalists; the author of The Professor, the awkward but potent anti-Calvinist Babbitt...
Since Lawyer Richberg stepped down from NRA in 1935, he has been little heard of. But he has been so well remembered by Transamerica Corp., Ford, American Rolling Mill, and other great corporations that he probably pockets a cool half million a year from his law business. The firm of Davies, Richberg, Beebe, Busick & Richardson is one of the busiest in the Capital and one of its principal assets is Partner Richberg's erstwhile intimacy with Franklin Roosevelt. Although he still sees the President frequently, Donald Richberg's advice no longer carries much weight, for the anti...
...News's 3,000,000 readers have been profoundly apathetic to these revelations, even when Publisher Patterson gave them front page headlines on rat news at the height of the German pogroms. Reaction of scientists has ranged from cool to openly hostile. When Publisher Patterson tried to talk about his big story to a pretty nurse in his doctor's office she exclaimed: "Oh, rats-we tried that at Johns Hopkins . . . and it can't be done...