Word: obviously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the blue and surf-ringed isolation of French-owned Tahiti, Author James Norman Hall (Pitcairn's Island, Mutiny on the Bounty) decided that the world's dirty, teeming and fear-ridden old nests of civilization needed a word of cheer. After noting, with obvious satisfaction, that French Oceania was free of the ships, planes and men which cluttered it up during World War II, he sent TIME two items of news about its people...
Seizing the Grimaces. His work does not sing, says Valéry flatly. "Grace and obvious poetry were not his objective." In his drawings, he seemed almost wholly concerned with the truth of what he saw. "His dancers and laundresses were seized in professionally significant attitudes which permitted him to ... analyze various poses never before of interest to painters. He abandoned the beautiful, soft, reclining bodies, the delectable Venuses and Odalisques . . . But he was intent on reconstructing the particular female animal, slave of the dance, the laundry or the street. These more or less deformed bodies he forced into unstable...
...Chicago, Correspondent Serrell Hillman got in touch with schoolmaster Herbert Winslow Smith, who had taught Robert at the Ethical Culture School in Manhattan. At 15, he said, it was immediately obvious that this thin, gangling boy was a genius and, in fact, "his mind is so tremendous that it makes you really uneasy...
...reason for the increase is obvious, Dr. Guthrie believes: "As the span of life increases, more people reach the senile period . . . The incidence of illness increases anyway with the aging process, and mental illness is one of them." Another factor is the growth of cities. "City dwellers can't tolerate little aberrations [among members of their families] as well as country people." City life, too, is more complicated for the mentally ill. (A Guthrie example: "A shepherd in Wyoming might be as schizophrenic as can be. He wouldn't last five minutes in Times Square...
Hardening of the arteries can lead to gangrene-if the vessels become so clogged that too little blood gets through. From a plumber's-eye view, the solution looks obvious: scrape out whatever is blocking the vessels...