Word: directness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...studio, with his oils and canvas, his notes and numbers to guide him, Bernard Lamotte begins the part of his job he likes best. "With me," says he, "my palette is an orchestra. I have all my colors before me, and I play with them. With my stick, I direct them onto the canvas. The black is the bass and the blue is the piano. I say to the yellow, 'I am coming for you,' and to the pink, 'Stay quiet.' Yes, when I paint I am the conductor-like Toscanini...
...Direct action by the Legion of Decency...
Then he made a little history. Appearing on a CBS television program, he proved himself the best campaigner yet on the newest communications medium to reach into the U.S. home. His big, squarecut Scandinavian face was etched handsomely on the screen; he was relaxed, direct and confident. He answered ably and fully every question two newsmen could throw...
...thalamus, a sort of relay station, transmits nerve impulses to & from the frontal lobe. When these nerve pathways get out of whack, the doctors reasoned, emotional control becomes disturbed and insanity results. Why not operate on the thalamus direct instead of risking damage to the frontal lobe? The big difficulty was getting at the thalamus without wrecking three inches of brain...
...portrait, Topolski pictured himself in a highly dramatic light, modestly or perhaps fearfully shielding his eyes from the glare. "I am," he explained to a critic, "an awed, mystified, laughing and crying member of the humanity that watches and participates in the spectacle of history, but is unable to direct it or reason...