Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flat seat-cushion, hard like a mattress, sailed down from the crowd and landed somewhere near Lorenzo Garza. "Obscenity," muttered Lorenzo Garza. "I obscenity in the milk of their mattress." He was sweating and cursing and the bull was standing there and the crowd was yelling and the cushions and bottles were falling all about him because the unprintable bull did not want to be killed...
...retreating from realism. With every fresh retreat they dug themselves a new redoubt, hoisted a flag and proclaimed a new ism. Impressionism and neoImpressionism held that artists should paint with prismatic colors, imitating the effect of light. Synthetism held that they should not. Fauvism held that artists should paint flat, abstract decorations; Cubism, that the subject should be broken up into planes. Futurism, Orphism, Expressionism, Synchronism, Abstract Dadaism...
...Spanish-born Joan Miro is a surrealist who is more abstract than Surrealist Salvador Dali. Least abstract of the four abstractionists' pictures were those of stocky Fernand Leger, who now lives in the U. S. Leger's intricate designs, drawn with thick, coally lines and colored in flat patches, were made up of recognizable hands, faces, tree roots, fried eggs, birds and feet, looked a little like elaborate sculptural reliefs. Abstractionist Feininger's subject matter was also recognizable, but his ships and buildings looked, when he was through with them, like earthquakes viewed through a shattered plate...
Brahms: Concerto No. 2 in B Flat Major (Vladimir Horowitz, pianist, with the NBC Symphony under Arturo Toscanini; Victor: 12 sides; $6.50). The Brahms concertos are as massively splendiferous as the Brahms symphonies. In this one, Toscanini, his pianist son-in-law and the recording engineers (it was made in Carnegie Hall instead of in NBC's woolly-sounding Studio 8-H) do a superb...
...last week (nor from the reticent visitors to the White House) as to how well or how badly he believed U. S. armament was going, how strongly or how weakly the U. S. had grasped the needs of the moment. But from one man close to him came a flat warning: U. S. production was worse than any man had reason to expect; the U. S. state of mind was far from reassuring. In Manhattan, to the Overseas Press Club, former Ambassador William Bullitt said: "If we cannot now get into production at war speed without the declaration...