Word: likings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...description of the way the imperial prisons are said to have been. There is propaganda in it, but that is kept out of sight. Its horror, too is kept out of sight, brought to life by suggestion until it becomes a mood as palpable as a sound, like something howling. This would not be possible if there was any real howling, but the picture is silent. You never see the prisoners tortured; you see them working on the rock-pile and coming in for meals. Best shot: the jailer's birthday party...
...Taungs skull resembles the skulls of both young boys and young chimpanzees. That is not surprising because baby humans, chimpanzees and gorillas resemble each other. That resemblance furnishes one of the presumptions of man's common origin with apes. The Southern boy-ape looked more like a chimpanzee than like any human race known today. But he carried his head and body higher. His milk teeth, brain and temple bones are closer to the human type than the ape. So Professor Dart boldly reasons that he belonged to a family intermediate between the higher apes...
Commissioned by TIME to paint the Hoover Cabinet, the first panel of which is published this week (see front cover), Painter Douglas Chandor of London, Manhattan, Philadelphia, Detroit and Washington, D. C. is like Author Chesterton's Noah?everything "on the largest scale;" that is, in the grand manner...
...Like most painters, Painter Chandor prefers men to women as subjects. "It's an awful strain to paint women. They must constantly be amused," he says. For women who interest him as subjects he designs clothes. Women with whose ideas about posing themselves he takes issue, should feel flattered rather than other- wise. They are "worth bothering about." Of necessity an ethnologist and character-reader of sorts, he says dark-haired people have more depth of character than light-haired and make better subjects psychologically as well as pictorially. Beauty attracts him less than "interesting" faces. Says...
...These are the ultra violet rays, as it were, of the painter's spectrum, and the artist who, like Mr. Chandor, is not blind to them presents a genuine and sincere portrait rather than a mere likeness...