Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many Italians moved unhappily beneath the weight of their historic decision, which they neither wanted to make, nor felt adequate to face. On a wall outside Naples one Italian trying to escape the inescapable had scrawled: "Viva questi, viva quelli, viva chi vince, viva noi!" ("Long live these, long live those, long live whoever wins, long live...
Such post-impressionists as Gauguin, Van Gogh and Cézanne wrenched the wheel further around, by refusing to paint precisely what they saw. They also painted what they felt about it, and they inclined to look more at their pictures than at their subjects. It remained for the living moderns, led by Picasso and Matisse, to give the final twist. A painting, they decided, is a painting first and foremost, and whatever it represents must be secondary. Granted that much, they felt perfectly justified in making their own rules, regardless of "appearances." Some (the nonobjective painters) chose to ignore...
Meanwhile, Ed Barit prodded his engineers to recapture the art which had given Hudson the industry's longest list of "firsts" (e.g., first aluminum pistons, first rear luggage compartment, first steering-wheel gearshift). Last fall they were finally ready with something that Barit felt to be a real advance. The new Hudson was so low that passengers step over the frame and down into it from the curb, yet it still has more headroom and width than any other car now being mass-produced. It also has a lower center of gravity. Barit was so convinced...
Though the subject that concerned her had no limits, she had. Although she was always troubled by the fear of madness (it led her to commit suicide), she never felt at home with the writers of despair or abnormality...
...grew increasingly irritable and joked less & less. Eventually they grew too apathetic to bother with shaving, brushing their teeth or combing their hair. Their interest in study gradually collapsed, but they felt closely identified with their group and with the starving throughout the world. They had occasional "spells of elation, sometimes bordering on ecstasy," or were unduly depressed and discouraged. For four of the men the strain was too great: they cheated by eating extra food and were dropped from the experiment...