Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...press came away divided. The Scotsman found that, "as advocates of modern American music, they are lacking in discrimination," but the Daily Express called the production "lively and enjoyable." The Daily Mail was jolted, said the company came "to instruct us in a kind of musical entertainment which is almost startlingly novel . . . Their show is slick and professional, yet informal...
California's Frederick Wight has nothing against abstract art, except when it is used to express abstract ideas. Abstractions of abstractions, he believes, can only lead to pictures like Malevich's notorious White on White at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. That canvas a white patch on a white patch, might be said to express the idea of purity except that it is too thin and bare to carry the weight of the idea; most people think it must be a joke. Wight's own paintings on show this week at the Pasadena Art Museum...
...final count was 755½ for Kefanver and 589 for Kennedy, who appeared in time to make the motion for Kefauver's nomination by acclamation. Estes Kefauver ambled onto the platform to express his gratitude. He was half dead from his strenuous exertions, but it made little difference in his appearance. Waving his hands and grinning broadly, he shone all over with delight at finally winning the place−or almost the place−on the national ticket that he had been working hard for lo those four long years...
...16th floor of Chicago's Conrad Hilton Hotel, Correspondent Rene MacColl of London's Daily Express rushed to a down elevator. The elevator girl waved him back imperiously. "Just a minute, sir," she said. "I'm on TV." Recounted MacColl: "I looked around, and by God, she was. A huge glare box was moving up behind me for an interview with...
...London Daily Express, advocating colored colonial Members of Parliament, Press Lord Beaverbrook took Ellington as a fine example of his race, described him as "a genius of Negro music. He sat by the side of his host, modest, dignified, delighting all the company with his gay mind and splendid bearing...