Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...literal painter. His colors themselves are intended to contain a certain emotional content, and the total effect of each of his paintings depends primarily on the manner in which the colors he uses are combined and applied. What da Vinci, by using a real woman's face, expresses in his "Mona Lisa," Klee would express by varying the hues, intensities, and values of certain color combinations. Thus, it is easy to see how the transition from a literal form of expression to an abstract one might involve a brief process of receptive adjustment on the part of the spectator...
...noncombatants faced the possibility of a March offensive without perceptible nervousness. Two elderly British lady trippers marched into the American Express office in Paris, last week, and asked for a short, not-too-tiring, conducted tour of the battlefields...
...Actually the exams are of the short-answer, check-and-underline variety. To the Senior who takes them, the Carnegie people will turn over a picture of his store of knowledge, telling how he stacks up mentally with his fellows. Admittedly the exams do not test "the ability to express ideas in writing, skill in laboratory techniques, research ability, and originality." Admittedly they are experimental even in the realm of pure knowledge. But nevertheless they were drawn up by professors from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia, who can't all be wet. And for three seasons the exams have been...
...women of means and leisure are by now well mobilized to express their war sympathies, chiefly for the Allies, in tangible ways. Apart from help for Finland, which, being financial for the most part, is run by men, and the nationwide weekly bandage-rolling, diaper-hemming sessions of local Red Cross chapters, there are more than a score of war-relief organizations, mostly headquartered in Manhattan. The time has come when no movie star, foreign or domestic, who knows her publicity onions fails to show her war knitting as well as her knees to the news-camera. Example: British Madeleine...
Actually, Lord Haw-Haw is no better informed than any one of several other English speakers on the German radio. The difference is that he has been ridiculed to fame. The Daily Express's Jonah Barrington dubbed him Haw-Haw last September. BBC comics lost no time ribbing him in rhyme. He became a character in a revue, was impersonated at Mayfair affairs. Trying to figure out his real identity became a national British pastime. He was spotted as (among others): 1) a German professor who once preached Naziism in Scotland; 2) Norman Baillie-Stewart, famed ex-Seaforth Highlander...