Word: know
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Playwright Clifford (Waiting for Lefty) Odets, 42, returning to Broadway with a bitter satire on Hollywood (The Big Knife) after seven profitable years among the moviemakers, tried to explain the creative urge: "What gets you all hot about a play? I don't know. A moment of pique, a bellyache, a week of exaltation. Who knows? ... I think most of us live like dogs-in the good sense. We are moved by appetites, helter-skelter, a run here, a sniff there. Like animals...
...room "Chasa Mengelberg," there is a huge library and a piano, but no running water, electricity or radio. Until a TIME correspondent visited him last week, he did not know that two German musicians, accused but cleared of collaborating -Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler and Pianist Walter Gieseking-had been forced to cancel U.S. performances* after stormy protests...
...Queen Wilhelmina asked me to return the decoration which she had once bestowed on me. And do you know why? A newspaper poll once revealed that Mengelberg was the most popular name in Holland, and that the Queen held only second place . . ." His secretary apologetically intervened: "He sometimes can't get the facts straight any more...
...there was no doubt that he had overcome plenty of difficulties-in person. For five years he had haunted the auctions, picked every painting and print himself, without a moment's doubt of his judgment. He knew what he wanted: "But of course! I own horses; I know what they look like...
Perhaps, a few critics gently suggested, one should know a little more than that. Commented the London Daily Mail (under the headline HUNTIN', SHOOTIN' AND PAINTIN') : "Many of the prints and canvases are aesthetically worthless; more of them are to be regarded as entertaining examples of folk art equivalent to Toby jugs and samplers...