Word: max
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first dream is entitled "Desire" and is the work of Max Ernst, based on his collages for "Le Semaine da Bonte." This dream belongs to a frustrated bank-clerk and seems to be centered around a bed containing a very lush brunette. He steals her away but is literally hounded by conventions of society...
...Varsity contest, a four and a quarter mile test, went to Max Schafiler of Tufts, who was clocked in 23:24.8 minutes. For the Crimson, Nat Carieton was the first to cross the finish line, placing sixth. Joe Leming took eighth, John Cogan twelfth, Dick White thirteenth, and Joe Rosen fifteenth. The final score...
...ordinary painted pictures, and their very impermanence was bound to appeal to George Grosz and other German Dadaists (who pretended to despise art) of post-World War I. One Grosz number: a brutish-looking portrait with a cut-out of a mechanical pump where the heart should be. Max Ernst (who has since gravitated logically to surrealism) attached a lady's legs to a bit of lace, pasted both on a cloudy sky and called his faintly sinister porridge Above the Clouds Walks the Midnight...
Town House (adapted from John Cheever's stories by Gertrude Tonkonogy; produced by Max Gordon) is one more comedy about the housing shortage-and on the whole, one too many. Despite George S. Kaufman's brisk direction and amusing performances by Mary Wickes and Hiram Sherman, it is much oftener forced than funny, and the more the playwrighting falters, the lower the playwright stoops...
With such slick tricks as its new records, S. & S. feels sure that it will weather the storm now buffeting bookmen. S. & S.'s two guiding heads, tall, affable Richard L. Simon, 49, and intense, hard-driving M. (for Max) Lincoln Schuster, 51, are a formidable team, bubbling with ideas. In the words of one associate: "Max gets an average of 80 ideas a day; at least one a month is superlative...