Word: graphic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...using this test on many healthy people and on mental cases diagnosed by experienced psychiatrists, the inventors of the game have learned the answers that are usual in different situations. A series of simple clerical manipulations (which his untrained receptionist can work out for him) gives a doctor a graphic picture of his patient's personality as the cards see it. The doctor need not even know what answers were given to individual questions...
When the average white American soldier surveys his army, he sees it not as one unit, but as two distinct organizations: an American army and a Negro army. This sordid scene has been painted by the War Department, thinking it a graphic solution to racial problems in the Army. But the need for a mixed regiment is merely one aspect of this shallow picture the War Department has produced. There are others...
...Behind the Gun was not designed for commercial exploitation. It was built to convey to Americans at home a graphic picture of what their boys on the fighting fronts were up against, of the weapons they were using, the combat tactics involved. The show took planes, tanks, ships, guns and submarines into action with an authenticity calculated to grip and instruct nonmilitary listeners. An understanding, restrained use of dramatic techniques, sounds and the special language of World War II gave The Man an impact rare in radio...
...beyond the confines of the human body." While O'Keeffe admits there is reason for her flowers and landscapes to be considered as symbols of the unconscious, her gigantic Black Cross, New Mexico] might suggest extreme asceticism. All of O'Keeffe's work, utterly original, has graphic cleanliness, economy, purity, a lyric quality suggesting that of Poetess Emily Dickinson...
...Petersburg to Paris with a canvas showing a decapitated milkmaid floating in an emetic sky while a pink cow was suckled by a pair of pea-green apes on a Russian rooftop. Paris was baffled. Even the Left Bank was slow to understand that Painter Chagall's graphic defiance of the laws of physics and biology was the work of a deeply religious, idealistic young Jew who was merely recreating from his imagination the folk tales he had heard as a boy in his native Russia. But an important artistic event had occurred-the modern art worlds of Eastern...