Word: misshapen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet theory that environment shapes most human qualities and the Nazi theory of inherited racial supremacy both "appear to be nonsense," according to a scientist who has produced cleft palate, misshapen brains and many other deformities in mice...
...divisions and easy denials. For we are the beginning of a renewal of the world . . . the modern world is not yet, and it will seek itself until the Face and the Smile of God, through the dynamic and active presence of Christians . . . have led it in its yet misshapen and scattered search. The modern world will create itself progressively when the Church, forgetting its limitations of the past, stripped of its clothing from the Middle Ages, reinvigorated by the Evangelical Vision, will have assumed it, transfigured it, unified...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was a bitter, boisterous, grotesquely misshapen mite of a man. He spent the best of his 37 years pattering up & down the steep streets of Montmartre, tippling in its gayest bistros and teetering on the edge of artistic fame. Half a century ago, liquor laid him by the heels. Last week, some of the work he managed between benders was on exhibition at two Paris galleries; a fictional biography of him, Moulin Rouge, was on U.S. bestseller lists; and the Baltimore Museum of Art had just staged a comprehensive show of his posters. Keeping step with...
...West Point Story (Warner) crossbreeds two thin Hollywood strains: the backstage musical and the plot that glorifies the U.S. Military Academy. The result is a little monster of a flag-waving, hip-wagging movie combining the misshapen features of both. In a fine burst of freakishness, the Warners have even stuffed overage (46) James Cagney into the uniform of a West Point plebe...
...began as frivolously as Molnar and wound up as savagely as Strindberg. With notable help from the production, the play messed up every mood it attempted, and, despite brief glimpses of something better, proved dated, hollow, inept. Bitterly portraying how Love tricks the innocent, mocks the decadent, dooms the misshapen, tortures the mad, Cry was almost literally a cry; the author seemed too enraged for clear speech...