Word: pastepots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paris was a symbol of hope to Frenchmen. The graceful, cream-tinted building off the Place de la Concorde shone brighter every day. Its gardens behind the high iron railings were always carefully manicured. Every window was clean and glistening. Inside, every inkwell was full, every desk tidy, no pastepot gooey...
Wondering San Franciscans, who visited their Museum of Art last week to see what Painter Varda had furiously farrowed, saw 20 Varda collages (pictures put together with the help of colored papers, scissors, and a pastepot as well as paintpots). What they were pictures of, very few knew or cared; they were enjoyable. Most of the collages contained figures that were something like clothespins, something like praying mantises, something like attenuated, faceless women in a contrived geometric chaos...
...match in Colonel Wassily de Basil, the Russian who had assembled the troupe. In all published matter, de Basil's name had to be in type equal to, or bigger than, Hurok's. There was much furious measuring of type, and once Hurok had to go out, pastepot in hand, and stick the Colonel's name on some three-sheet posters from which it had been omitted. Today Colonel de Basil manages a rival troupe and earthy S. Hurok, who knows what he likes, is final arbiter of the Monte Carlo ballet programs...