Word: failed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...philosopher is hidden in the painter, but Gerassi does come forth with a Spanish sense of tragedy combined with hope. It is reflected in pictures like the black and white jug with its tragic air or in such remarks as: "Each time you fail, you learn something. If you have faith in yourself, you go on. The more failures, the better...
This provides formidable competition. Next to Rouault, Max Beckmann's strength, coherent though it is in both still life and portrait, becomes an inflexible and dry stiffness. Bradley Walker Tomlin's vivid pattern of color dabs appears insubstantial and weak. Even Miro's usual verve and wit fail to bring his Lasso to satisfying completeness. Yet, such free-swinging abstractions as Toti Scialoja's or Richard Diebenkorn's, have far less to say. Their absence of representational basis is perfectly acceptable but their lack of aesthetic articulation...
...have never taken the Tribune's anti-Eisenhower outbursts seriously are quick to accuse Knight of using criticism of the President to sell newspapers. Retorts Knight: "I don't sit down and say something because I think it is good for my newspapers. I don't fail to say something because I think it would be bad for my newspapers." Knight's rightward march is essentially the reaction of a cost-conscious businessman. But the hundreds of letters from worried readers that are pouring into his newspapers' and congressional offices each week indicate that what...
...regarded Billy as a sinister and strange "new junction of Madison Avenue and the Bible Belt . . . Radio and television will be carrying the voice and image of blond sincerity into homes long conditioned to recognize packaged virtue and desperate now for almost any kind of sincerity. It simply cannot fail. With trainloads of well-saved out-of-town supporters coming from as far away as Texas, the campaign will obviously be railroaded to success...
...first time in eleven years there is every reason to take the Russian proposal seriously. Considering the improvement in the Communist attitude towards disarmament, the Supreme Soviet's call for a conference no longer seems completely suspect. Although the Administration, which is deeply committed to the tests, may fail to respond to the Kremlin's challenge, the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy should not let the opportunity pass...