Word: hideousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gide published his first book, anonymously and at his own expense, when he was 21. The Notebooks of Andre Walter (1891) was the thinly disguised story of his own neurotic love for his cousin Emmanuele. Novelist-Critic Charles Huysmans promptly labeled it "a product of hideous vulgarities." Few people read it and fewer still bought it; but it admitted Gide to Paris' literary set. It brought him the acquaintance of Maeterlinck, D'Annunzio, Whistler, Gauguin, Rodin and Mallarme...
...Suite in E Flat for Military Band, by Gustav Holst, which was played with finesse and showed off to best advantage the Band's excellent brass sonority, as well as the adeptness of its wind section in soft passages. One part of the "Intermezzo" reminded this listener of that hideous monstrosity, the Khatchatourian "Sabre Dance," but after the initial shock had subsided, the "Intermezzo" emerged as the most enjoyable part of the Suite...
...story of "Beauty and the Beast' (English Title) is the familiar one of the prince, enchanted into a hideous monster, who can regain his former state only through the true love of a girl. The Beauty is a girl of humble station and religious soul who is kept by the Beast in his castle. She penetrates the ugly coating of his appearance to feel first pity for the Beast, then real love-thus breaking the spell...
First, Mr. Bracken spoke of the gratitude we owe to our "fearless, clear-headed leaders who call a spade a spade and recognize Communism for the hideous conspiracy it is." I was not quite sure who he was referring to, but I assume he means the Republican majority in the Congress. It is interesting to note that the Senate Republicans split 24-23 on the most important tool of aid to Europe, ERP, and it was the Democratic minority that brought about passage of the legislation. Or, perhaps Mr. Bracken is referring to the magnificent stand the Southern Democrats...
...hideous Flemish masterpiece, newly acquired by London's National Gallery, looked strangely familiar. Probably, said the National Gallery experts last week, Illustrator John Tenniel had used it as the model for the Duchess in Alice. Flemish Master Quentin Matsys (1466-1530), who had painted the original, had intended it as a caricature of Margaret (nicknamed "Pocket-mouth"), Countess of Tyrol. About the only change Tenniel made, agreed the London News Chronicle, was to add "ermine to the headdress and sausage curls to the forehead." Otherwise little was otherwise...