Word: elegante
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. John-Alden Carpenter, 75, Chicago socialite, businessman and famed U.S. composer, a pioneer in the use of American jazz rhythms in concert works; after a long illness; in Chicago. Carpenter began winning acclaim around World War I for his polite, elegant songs, impressionistic orchestra pieces (Adventures in a Perambulator...
Must your newspaper's critics relentlessly follow their hapless brethren down the road of diluted rot where there is no integrity, no craftsmanship, no clear and vivid expression and where measurements and analyses serve alone to convey the vanity of that elegant man of letters who with perfect taste in...
Doubtful or not, De Kooning wallops into each canvas with a will, drawing lines that resemble streams of ticker tape on the wind, whipped free one instant, snarled the next, and punctuated with blobs and smears which break the canvas into arcs, tunnels, humps and skies of space. Weak in...
Manufacturers at that time, according to Owen, catered to the "elegant tastes of the middle class," and developed what he calls the "horticultural school" of ornament. "Art was modernized until every common article took on the air of a tortured gas-pipe."
The Autumn Garden (by Lillian Hellman; produced by Kermit Bloomgarden) is a strikingly new kind of Lillian Hellman play. The plot is not at all striking and is secondary to the people; the people are pretty average people, neither vipers nor vixens. The scene is the South-an elegant summer...