Word: lets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which defended it from the invasions of all its enemies since the time of William the Conqueror has not proved to be a sufficient bulwark to bar the way to this subtle enemy [modern art]." But, he went on, "modernism is dying in all the countries of the world. Let us hope it will soon be just an unhappy memory." At this, one man in the audience broke into loud, if lonely, applause. People turned to see who it was. Sure enough, it was none other than doughty Sir Alfred Munnings himself...
...half-abstract figures-pinheaded people carved into queer, attenuated shapes, rubbed smooth and then pierced with holes-have won critical acclaim in Manhattan (TIME, Dec. 30, 1946). A year ago they earned him first prize at an international exhibition in Venice. Last week, Yorkshire-born Henry Moore let the homefolks in on what he had been doing by holding a retrospective show in the red brick, grey-roofed town of Wakefield. Six thousand Yorkshiremen turned up to see what all the fuss was about. The proof of Henry Moore's pudding, they figured, would be in the eating...
...Wall Street Journal also admonished Big Steel: "There seems no reason why the sessions should not take place in a hall of sufficient size." Forbes Magazine Publisher B. C. Forbes also let fly: "The time is past when companies can get away with holding their meetings in damned inaccessible places like Squeedunkus or Hohokus . . ." In midweek, the stockholders' revolt gained a small victory. Continental Can Co., Inc., which has been holding its annual meetings in Millbrook, N.Y., a more than two-hour train & bus trip from Manhattan, announced that it would hold future meetings in its Manhattan headquarters...
...they hear, and they learn man's ways with incredible rapidity. Fences cannot keep these sly relations of the dog and the wolf out of a sheep range or a chicken yard: some Southwest natives believe that they talk to the fences and the fences open up and let them through. Barbed-wire fences had some trouble understanding them at first but are now responsive...
...question of cinema superiority, another country has been heard from. The new film at the Beacon Hill is from Sweden, and if it can be taken as typical of the quality of Swedish films, let us have many more...