Word: hideousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Great is Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. But much of its scenery is hideous, most of its stagecraft pompous, hidebound, stodgy. In Europe, opera is everywhere sung in the language of the land, whereas the Met's official tongue is Anything-but-English. Next week the Metropolitan will open its season with some hurdy-Verdi in Italian (Un Ballo in Maschera), a new sponsor for its Saturday broadcasts (Texas Co.), its annual promise of more oomph. Meanwhile last week some other U. S. operas delivered the oomph...
Epstein's statues have started riots, thrown academicians into fume and sputter, horrified bishops, even worried Scotland Yard. They have been tarred and feathered, lathered with green paint, censored with fig leaves. They have been called ''bestial, hideous, obscene, monstrous, misshapen, vile...
...McNeill Whistler (2?). Out last week went Sculptors Augustus Saint-Gaudens (3?) and Daniel Chester French Frederic Remington, famed Indian and cowboy painter (10?), goes on sale next week. The first four artists' stamps were not likely to make stamp users very art-conscious. They were, respectively, a hideous green, a hackneyed red, a sickly magenta, a commonplace blue, each containing a palette and brushes in one corner, engravers' tools in another...
...architecture and city planning at a time when more cities are being destroyed than built. He has written authoritatively about these and other subjects. He is also a militant and vocal liberal, and has en joyed a long connection with The New Republic that ended last June in a hideous rupture (TIME, June 17, July 8). When Russia, the "Socialist Fatherland," began to exhibit openly all the symptoms of a flourishing fascism, Mumford denounced Communists. When German, Italian and Japanese Fascists began to burn the cities of Spain and China, Author Mumford blew up with a pop heard round...
...around the north end of Ireland, guarded by 200 British soldiers and a crew of 300. Early the second day out, without warning, a German torpedo took the Arandora Star full in the waist, blew such a hole in her that she sank in two minutes. Survivors told a hideous story of how the Germans fought and trampled the Italians, killed crew members and each other, fighting for places in the lifeboats. Only 572 prisoners were saved, taken back to Scotland. Captain E. W. Moulton and several of his officers went down on the bridge of their ship. Most...