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Cummings' fame rests on such books as Eimi and The Enormous Room and volumes of poetry written with the freakish punctuation and typography that have become his trademark. His sunny, splashy little portraits and paintings of apple trees in blossom and luminous, leggy nudes are all done with slapdash delight; they have none of the sharpness or strangeness that make his books memorable, infuriating or a bore. Compared with his writings, Cummings' art seems as soft and wholesome as fresh butter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: As I Go Along | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

...spots may be a cause of unseasonably warm weather in the northeastern United States and freakish cold waves sweeping the West, Charles F. Brooks '12, Director of the University's Blue Hill Observatory, told the CRIMSON last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sun Spots May Be Villain in Winter's Freakish Weather | 2/11/1949 | See Source »

...fluttering of thousands of cardboard fans gave the effect of a wheatfield in a freakish wind, across which photographers' bulbs flashed like heat lightning (see PRESS). Then a grim-faced Negro loomed on the platform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: The Line Squall | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

...becoming more & more authoritarian. "I dread a world state run by biologists and economists ... by whom no life would be tolerated that didn't contribute to an economic purpose . . . Art can offer the surest escape from the tedium of threatening totalitarianism. It mustn't be reckless, freakish, fantastic, but must console and ennoble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Il Bibi | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

...stand in more than one line to get his various books," George Cole, manager, said yesterday. Consequently, all college text books will be available in this one section. It is also planned to route the book lines so that no man will have to stand outside in freakish New England weather...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Coop Remodels | 7/25/1947 | See Source »

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