Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jacques-of-All-Letters Philippe Soupault, one of the founding fathers of surrealism, examined love-in-the-U.S., shuddered at what he saw, reported in the French review Modern Times that "Americans consider a love affair in the same light as a crime." The fear of love, he observed, produces nervous disorders, and "there are more maladjusted people in America than in any other country in the world...
...Fatal Weakness (produced by the Theatre Guild) finds the George Kelly who has so often gone after women with a whip (Craig's Wife, Behold the Bridegroom) merely thwacking them with a hairbrush-and almost patting the heroine on the head. The Fatal Weakness is sharp-eyed but light-reined comedy that would be straight matinee stuff were not much of it matinee stuff in reverse. Unsentimental Playwright Kelly has a way of suddenly going against traffic-of, for example, letting a curtain flutter down just where a standard-brander would start licking his chops. Again, after ringing...
...Chicago's Institute of Design; of leukemia; in Chicago. Onetime top apostle of Germany's famed Bauhaus at Dessau (closed by the Nazis), he thought of art in terms of 20th Century mass production, inspired his Chicago students to design automobiles to run on sunlight, chairs light enough to be lifted by a thread, transparent walls filled with colored gases...
...between the desire to procreate and the desire to find oblivious peace in death. Wholly absent from his poems are humor and political ideology: he reduces his rich and strange harvest of influences and beliefs simply to a "record of my individual struggle from darkness towards some measure of light"-the struggle of any natural growth...
Eight months before the first regular program was aired technical tests were conducted, and experimental programs broadcast over the heating pipes, but that means of transmission proved unsatisfactory, and the entire system was overhauled to make use of the electric light lines, the channel now used by the Network...