Word: directness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Matthiessen will open the evening with a short talk on the social implications of art and the relationship of the artist to his society, in which he will evaluate some of the contributions of Marxist critics. Following this, he will direct a discussion from the floor...
Said the-other: "Before the war, when another university wanted to borrow a professor even for a six-month lectureship, they wrote a polite letter asking our permission. Now they just send a telegram direct to the professor, offering him a permanent job. The only way I hear about it is if I happen to run into the professor with his furniture on his back...
They seem rather few these days. Yet the mystical tradition is sustained by many poets and intellectuals, for example, T. S. Eliot. And the direct experience of God is still available to any man capable of enough suffering, renunciation and self-conquest. Across time and space the great mystics share their discovery. Dostoevsky and St. Teresa bear witness to identical ecstasies. The visions of many a saint are echoed in these words by the late flyer Saint-Exupéry, who alone above the clouds found himself "enclosed as in the precincts of a temple," where, "by the grace...
...busy buying up the bogus Newsweek to make an extended statement, the Bow Street aviary nevertheless did manage to take time out between newsstands to declare that "this left us speechless." By last night, however, they were sufficiently recovered to direct their suspicions at the Yale Record...
...revelling in OPA-less freedom, had gone berserk with swirls and pleats. They had dropped the hemline from the knee to at least midcalf. Some daytime dresses went almost to the ankles, making their wearers look like entries in a bag race. Resistance to these long skirts increased in direct ratio to distance from New York. In Chicago, a parade of long skirts at a fashion show drew a chorus of disgusted "Eeeks!" A customer at Chicago's Russeks insisted on having her new spring suit cut to knee-length until, after two fittings, she took a trip...