Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week Londoners were not so much shocked as surprised by Epstein's latest exhibition, which consisted not of sculpture but of 37 pencil drawings displayed at Tooth's New Bond Street Galleries. They were part of a set of 60 illustrating Les Fleurs du Mal (Flowers of Evil) by the 19th-Century French poet, Charles Baudelaire. "This Bible of the modern man has long called to me," explained Sculptor Epstein...
...with a fat mulatto and wrote the most magnificent French verse since Racine. He was also the only art critic of his day who recognized the greatness of Daumier. He died, broken by drink and opium, in 1867. Though not precisely a Bible to modern man, the Flowers of Evil has been abundantly profaned by illustrators who interpreted it as high-class pornography...
This Epstein did not do. All but seven of the drawings shown were directly derived from the text, reflected its despair and horror as well as its sensuous music. Examples: Danse Macabre, a female skeleton posturing on a bed, and Flowers of Evil (see cut), which even conservative London critics, shocked again, conceded to be true to the poet...
...spring, in the British journal Nature, he succeeded in getting published a manifesto entitled "The Pragmatic and the Dogmatic Spirit in Physics" (TIME, May 23). In this he declared that the Jews-e. g., Einstein-have always tended to be theorists and dogmatists in science, that their influence is evil. The editors of 'Nature pooh-poohed this tirade, but printed it for the scrutiny of scientists in free countries...
...after the first. The appeal for the first plan should come so soon after the first. The second appeal is to serve democracy by education. Right here it fails to attract the attention the first one obtained. The first appeal was a concrete expression of abhorrence of a present evil; the second is based only on a quite vague and idealistic scheme of preparing for the future. This unfavorable comparison makes Harvard's latest plan for Scholarships lie unfortunately close to a noble absurdity...