Word: expressive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cannot resist placing on record my admiration for the splendid article on Picasso in the Art Section of TIME, Feb. 13. You have found a dynamic style in which to express the complicated explanations of art criticism, at the same time both popular and accurate...
Hearst has one close-knit group of generally profitable newspapers: the six on the Pacific Coast. The Los Angeles Herald & Express makes $1,000,000 a year, the Examiner $500.000. The San Francisco Examiner is another $1,000,000 paper. The Call-Bulletin and Oakland's Post-Enquirer earn far less, but stand to get a boost from the fair this year. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, once the weak sister of the Coast, has been pulling out of the red under Roosevelt Son-in-Law John Boettiger, will make enough in 1939 to offset 1938's losses. These...
...York City's three subways. Equally lost are most natives in the maze of the city's 35-year-old transit troubles. Most New Yorkers long since decided what they wanted-unification of the three lines and a guaranteed 5? fare. But for 18 years the Unification Express has been rattling past stations, stalling in dark tunnels. Suddenly last week, to the general public's surprise, it slowed for a stop. Tentative acceptance of the city's offer to buy the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corp. for $175,000,000 brought unification closer than it had ever...
...best swing music is played slow and easy. Somehow, and with the aid of Benny Goodman, the general misconception has arisen that music only swings when played loud and fast. That is not true. The things that the good swing musician tries to attain are relaxation and sincerity of expression. The idea of technique is secondary in jazz; that's why a good swing piano man doesn't like Art Tatum's work--a lot of octaves which when finished don't mean anything, don't convey any emotion, and could have been played twice as fast by Paderewski anyway...
...negative argued that far from suffering under the yoke of the fashion setters, the women actually enjoy it, since fashion was a way for women to express their independence of the world of men and work...