Word: downtowners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though royalties piled up, Villa-Lobos never moved from his cramped little apartment in downtown Rio, chaotically cluttered with papers, overflowing ashtrays, strange native instruments and dozens of hats (he collects them). There he has lived, ranting in a mixture of Portuguese and his fluent French, or composing quietly in a corner with a phonograph blaring in his ear. When visitors come, he can be rude ("I hate singers," he once bellowed at one he had just met), or he may entertain them for hours, playing records or showing them how he can sound three different rhythms all at once...
...Then, as I was getting into my dress clothes to attend one of the numerous receptions at the Club Centenario, a messenger showed up and gave me a small slip of paper with instructions to be at a corner of the Calle Estigarribia in the heart of downtown Asunción at 10 o'clock the next morning. There was no mention of whom I would meet there...
Some U.S. installment buyers were having the usual unhappy experiences. Kansas City and Detroit noted an increase in the number of attachments and garnishments. A typical example was a Kansas City housewife who was sued by a downtown department store after she had bought three dozen pairs of stockings, five pairs of expensive shoes, several pieces of fancy lingerie, several pints of perfume and a quantity of bath salts-all on installment. When her husband, a railroad man, began to lose his overtime pay, she had to default and the law moved...
John Sloan, 77, who has spent the past 20 years painting red-striped nudes in a downtown studio, remembers pre-Prohibition Manhattan as being "sweet . . . sweet and sad," and that was how he painted it. For him the canyon-like streets flowed with pretty girls and hurrying men-a warm swirl of humanity that his quick brush (trained for newspaper illustration in the days before news photography), caught in full flood. At night he painted Manhattan's vast, far sparkle, and did it tenderly enough to make onlookers sense the million lives behind the million lights...
...ring was truer than it sounded. Last week, when Cleveland College, the downtown division of Western Reserve University, announced its Basic Arts program, 100 Ohioans from Ph.D.'s to adults who had never finished the seventh grade said they wanted to sign up. The program was the invention of the college's new dean of the School of General Studies, John P. Harden, who once directed the University of Chicago's Great Books program...