Word: expositioneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rare is the celebration or exposition which, when held, is not claimed as "my idea originally" by a camp following of crack-pate "inventors." Rarer is the inventor who actually did have the idea and, rarer still, got paid for it.
All this not only added melody to Christmas shopping but made the Avenue's 80,000 daily pedestrians acutely aware of an artistic rivalry which has begun to show signs of lustiness. The art in question has been conceived as such for only about a dozen years.* It stems...
A glance at the billing shows the Ritz Brothers to be featured in the minor picture, but this should not prejudice any except the most violent anti-Ritzists against the program as a whole. Only a few very dull sequences have found their way into this latest, horsey attempt, and...
"The maximum of emotion," says austere Author Goldwater, "has not always been conceived in terms that necessitated formal simplification or the reduction of technical means, as witness the baroque." His exposition of later refinements of Primitivism is detached but informed, makes out a compelling case for their sincerity and importance...
Jovial young Physicist Ernest Orlando Lawrence has an 85-ton atom smasher at Berkeley, Calif. Intrigued by the Lawrence cyclotron, promoters of the Golden Gate International Exposition asked if they could borrow it to smash atoms for next year's fair. Physicist Lawrence, who was deep in experimentation, pointed...