Word: know
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sawabini, an insurance salesman living in Brookline, gained the floor by sending a note to Grace which said, "My name is Victor E. Sawabini, I come from Palestine. Please let me speak." Grace said afterwards he did not know that Sawabini was an Arab when he invited him to speak. He admitted being abashed by the Arab's remark "We don't want any more Jews. Why not send them to Texas...
...hands of Georges Braque, who took it up almost simultaneously, of Juan Gris, a young Spaniard who took it in 1911 and made it charming, and of Picasso, cubism made cunning use of all that painters know about form and color in themselves-from such elementary facts that a red patch seems to advance and a Violet patch to recede, to the most ingenious refinements All paintings, as painters see them, are merely areas of certain colors on flat canvas. Cubism made pictures which everybody could see that...
...respect tough, small Pablo Picasso's insistent assertion of his own independence, to find in it an example of commonplace psychological and artistic health. But with equal sobriety they feel that the time is past for amazement, shock or swoon over Pablo Picasso; that young painters had better know their own minds, their craft and their time as well as Picassian esthetics. Says Picasso, bored: "Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of the birds? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? Whereas with painting, people...
...months ago Critic Alfred Frankenstein of the San Francisco Chronicle received a letter from a small boy in Australia named Peter Buxton. Peter wanted to know the answers to some questions about "Mr. Yehudi" (Menuhin). Critic Frankenstein was so taken with Peter's knowledgeable prattle that he appointed him the Chronicle's Critic-Down-Under. Last week Critic Buxton's last year's concert-hall impressions were made public under the heading Reasume...
With this issue TIME begins publication of a weekly Index of Business Conditions. Different in objective from the indexes most businessmen know, TIME's index will report on the financial soundness, rather than the volume, of U. S. business...