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Like most contemporary primitives, Litwak is a far less sophisticated artist than the Cro-Magnon whose paintings, the earliest known, were found in a cave at Altamira,. Spain. The caveman's graceful, seemingly off-hand study of a charging bison was obviously true to life but Litwak's view of the Metropolitan Museum (see cut) is just as obviously a cockeyed, childlike impression, painted with the cramped, awkward care of an adult artisan. Explains Artist Litwak, whose colors are as hot and heavy as a fur coat in June: "I must have everything correct, just...
...President, always a confident man, was more than usually off-hand in his optimism over the nation's ability to meet its problems. In a dam-dedicating speech at Gilbertsville, Ky. (pop. 355), he said: "We are having our little troubles now-a few of them. They are not serious. Just a blow-up after a letdown from war. . . . We still have a few selfish men who think more of their own personal interests than they do of the public welfare. But you are not going to let them prevail. You are going to force everybody to get into...
...forced to ask one's self: "What is patriotism?" Some, like the editors of PM, know without asking themselves, but most ordinary citizens are dependent on the definitions of Noah Webster. Yet Noah is so unbelievably inadequate. "Devotion to welfare of one's country," he replies, with an off-hand glibness. Didn't he have room to go into the matter more thoroughly, or was he just plain naive...
...knew off-hand how much taxes the nation could bear. Messrs. Doughton & George were prepared to reserve judgment until the March 15 egg had been safely laid. Probability: no tax bill until mid-April, at the earliest...
...would be naive to imagine that Mr. Siepmann's visit is purely academic. Obviously, he will travel about the country, but ton-holing the leading radio executives, dining and wining them, discussing -- in an off-hand manner, of course -- the unfortunate war into which Britain has been dragged. He will reminisce on the subject of cricket, paint a picture of the jolly old hills of England, and dwell upon the good fellowship which blesses Anglo-American relations. If he is adroit at the art--and obviously he is adroit, or Britain would never have let such a valuable...