Word: organically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...open for the Teamsters' return after expulsion if they should get rid of Hoffa. Nonetheless, the delegates were well aware that their decision might plunge Big Labor into a near civil war as they trudged out of the Convention Hall to a tune barked out by the organ: Anything Goes...
...Lenox, 60 miles southwest of Des Moines, was lit by coal-oil lamps.) Answering a questionnaire, Mrs. Buckner conceded that Mayo was truthful, tenderhearted, had a good memory, was quick to learn his ABCs and children's verses, could pick out any tune he heard on the family organ. Nonetheless, Mrs. Buckner felt, and the family doctor agreed, that Mayo belonged in Glenwood because "He rolls his eyes and makes a peculiar noise . . . The child is not foolish but is lacking in many ways. I do not wish to send him to public school for he will not protect...
Alfred Kubin's two drawings, Edge of the World and Organ Grinder, are openly illustrative without being obvious. Next to the portraits by the much-praised Kokoschka with their hesitant drawing which often falls far short of any satisfying conclusion, Kubin's unpretentious drawings are refreshing. Nevertheless, whatever qualifications one makes in Kokoschka's case, his merits become evident when compared with the unhappy commercialism of Paul Kleinschmidt's At the Bar or Oskar Schlemmer's Three Figures...
...century was too expansive over it." Who really knew how to mourn? "The Greeks. They wept, they recovered, they recalled." What is old age? "Both by its practitioners and by its observers, it is approached too rhetorically and on too sustained a note-the whine of the gnat, the organ pedal diapasoning, the boom of the bittern, are among its musical accompaniments. The old person is assumed, and often affects to be, all of a piece-disgusting, pitiful, pretentious, peevish, noble, ingratiating, moody, and so on. It is really more varied, a seductive combination of increased wisdom and decaying powers...
Even the parent who decides on more conventional, nonmilitary toys will still have to deal with mechanized wonders, such as Knickerbocker's battery-powered organ ($12.95), on which a child can learn to play such simple tunes as Oh! Susanna, Noel and Home, Sweet Home. This year's line of autos includes Louis Marx's battery-driven car ($23.95) which can be ridden by children from i^ to six, and Ideal's clear-plastic model ($14.95), complete with electrical and differential systems, operating pistons and fan belt-130 parts in all for a parent to help...