Word: daly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hunched behind his lecturer's desk at Manhattan's New School for Social Research, the speaker introduced his subject as a product of the subconscious ("the earliest form of surrealism"), argued its artistic kinship to the creations of Authors Walt Whitman, Maeterlinck, James Joyce, Painters Renoir, Salvador Dali, Henri Rousseau ("the customs inspector who created things of beauty without knowing just how"). He was talking about jazz...
...naval warfare, as Winston Churchill has said. In some ways it is more like the warfare of wooden sailing ships than that of dreadnoughts. Desert war is a visual spectacle that calls for a Turner in the mood of The Burning of the Ships-with just a dash of Dali's eye for desert plains strewn with unreasonable wreckage. Herewith a composite picture of a day on last week's field, as described by various British correspondents on the spot...
Manhattanites waited for the melting watches, the hirsute oysters, the crutches, the lamb chops, that are the hallmarks of Surrealist Salvador Dali. But there were few such symbol-crashes in the ballet Labyrinth, given its world première at the Metropolitan Opera House last week...
...orchestra placidly unfolded the famed "heavenly lengths" of Schubert's Seventh Symphony, the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo toe-danced the Greek legend of Theseus killing the virgin-devouring Minotaur, and finding his way out of the monster's labyrinth by following Ariadne's thread. Against Dali's brightly painted, more or less relevant backgrounds, the confused milling of the lavishly costumed Greeks, pigeons, roosters, dolphins and waves did little credit to the Ballet Russe's seasoned choreographer, Leoride Massine...
...Reporting that she had been booed in Rio, on the street, at the opera door and on the stage as Tosca, Grace Moore said the booers were a Nazi-Fascist claque led by an Italian opera star whom she declined to name. ∙ ∙ 20th Century-Fox hired Salvador Dali to stage a special scene-a nightmare sequence showing "what runs through the mind of an inebriate...