Word: curiousity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the artist ought to know nothing whatever about the nature of the object before him . . . but should concentrate all his powers on a representation of its appearance. The picture was to be a consistent vision, a reproduction of the area filled by the eye. Hence, in a very curious way, the aspect of a substance became much more real to him than the substance itself...
When asked about the validity of the charge against him, he answered, "It is untrue, of course." Mather stated that the group of men on the list are a "curious mixture of people. Some are out and out Communists and some are patriotic Americans. He classified himself in the latter category...
Randolph's one-man campaign is a flagrant breach in the conspiracy of courtesy that by long tradition keeps Fleet Street mum about its own foibles. "It is a curious thing," he has written, "that wealthy men who own papers set themselves up to criticize every kind of institution, but they themselves are the one institution which is totally immune from criticism . . . Dog don't eat dog. That is one of the reasons why some of the London press...
University of Rome, Blanc hit upon the Torre site by accident. In the grass at the bottom of a hill 13 miles northwest of the Colosseum, he picked up a curious object that turned out to be the fossilized tooth of a prehistoric elephant. Professor Blanc borrowed a fleet of bulldozers and scraped until, 138 feet down, he exposed the remains of a primitive campsite strewn with hand axes and stone flakes. Many of the bones of the deer, elephants and horses that lay alongside had been cracked open by the hand-ax wielders, apparently in their search...
...making all three act and react in agreeably unbourgeois fashion, Playwright Green whips the situation into a nice comic froth. Then an Internal Revenue man arrives, finds that secret joint authorship leads to curious joint tax returns, and stirs up some fiscal commotion. After that, though in a rather graceful way, Janus goes downhill...