Word: designate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some reactionaries, no doubt the same ones who are against opera in English or Goodman playing Mozart, don't like the choral movement merely because it is choral, and therefore not "pure" music. In this particular movement, however, Beethoven used his chorus symphonically, thus keeping the musical design intact, and making good use of the vibrant sonority of the human voice which remains the most basically expressive of all musical instruments...
...many prominent European artists were searching their subconscious minds, recording and treasuring their dream impressions, practicing a hundred ingenious methods of outwitting their everyday sense of logic. Some of the queer things they turned up made their way into more popular forms of art, influenced things like 'poster design...
...frozen-as frozen they seem certain to be (see p. 18)-U.S. business will enter an unfamiliar world. It won't be a world of economic liberty guided by the free play of natural forces. It will be a world without basic economic freedom whose design was traced from a pattern made by economic forces once upon a time-at some date in the spring...
There are, fundamentally, two ways of making a stained-glass window. The first, or medieval method, is to fit small snippets of already-colored glass together in a huge mosaic, outlining the design with the intervening lines of lead. This method is the one responsible for such masterpieces of glazing as the windows of the Cathedrals of Chartres and Bourges. The second, or Renaissance method, dates from the 14th and 15th Centuries, when, instead of outlining their designs with lead, artists began to paint them boldly with pigment...
...Renaissance stained glass, made by painters rather than glaziers, the design may be drawn as freely as the artist desires. Because Renaissance-style stained glass was easier to handle, employed larger panes of glass and permitted far more freedom and subtlety of color and design, it completely supplanted, somewhere in the 17th Century, the earlier mosaic technique. Medieval glazing became temporarily a lost...