Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...round table" to discuss the whole baffling subject. Among them were conservatives like New York's Metropolitan Museum Director Francis Henry Taylor and such ardent defenders of the new faith as James Johnson Sweeney and Columbia's able Professor Meyer Schapiro. After two days' discussion, the fog was thick, but an island of agreement seemed to loom in it. Last week LIFE tried to survey the island through the fog...
...took a wrong turn left, instead of right. The road sort of died out. Mom was just going to turn back when all of a sudden the fog socked in on us. Couldn't see a thing. Mom tried to climb . . . Then we hit. The left wing sheared off. Both wings were off and we toppled over. Mom breathed roughly for a while and then was still. I knew...
Freedom & Fog Ghosts. Windom is sentimental, liberal, vague in his speech, tremendously learned in American history. He has lived through the administrations of 14 Presidents, and has shaken hands with nine of them. He holds long, philosophic-poetic conversations with his granddaughter-in-law-his grandson is a flyer-in a language which, with its mixture of slang and Walt Whitman grandiloquence, is unlike anything in American life or literature...
...that it is the worst novel he has ever read. It is, however, the sort of novel a distinguished Supreme Court Justice might write. It is an extraordinary mixture of learning and naivete, of self-conscious poeticizing and shrewd observation, with dim characters wandering about in a grey, dreamlike fog, bumping into ghosts bearing the names of historical personages...
...boozy gunmoll and the triggerman with a comic book. Embittered Bogart is at first unwilling to do anything about Johnny Rocco and his cohorts, but Bacall renews his faith, and the gunmoll slips him a heater, so the whole affair is resolved in an cerie gun battle on a fog shrouded cabin cruiser...