Word: pastes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that "nonobjective art claims validity only for its mechanics, for the material with which it is made" rejecting man, his life, his visions, his future, I raise one voice in dissent. In the few directions we were able to look during the 1920s, whether to past cultures or the scientific and social myths of our own, it was sharply clear that in them lay few answers valid for a man of vision...
...past years the winners of the Met's annual regional auditions got a chance to sing on the radio. This year, with the Metropolitan auditions radio program off the air, they were brought to New York by the Met's National Council to compete on the great stage before judges and an audience. Each of the 15 contestants had a preliminary hearing before General Manager Rudolf Bing and his panel to decide what they should sing in the finals, then rehearsed under Conductor Kurt Adler. With that preparation, they walked onto the Meistersinger set (already in place...
...much more convincing case is made by theorizers, both professional and amateur, who think the western helps people to get away from the complexities of modern life and back to the "restful absolutes" of the past. Western Man in Zane Grey's definition of the term is in fact an almost exact opposite of Western Man in Toynbee's sense. In the cowboy's world, justice is the result of direct action, not of elaborate legality. A man's fate depends on his own choices and capacities, not on the vast impersonal forces of society...
...publicity. The legend of the West was growing almost as fast as the reality. The dime novels, with a bow to James Fenimore Cooper, had begun to give a first, rough literary form to the western story. By 1890 the "flesh-times in Kansas" were a thing of the past. Wild Bill Hickok had been tamed by Writer-Promoter Ned Buntline, and was playing in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show ("Fear not, fair maid, you are safe at last with Wild Bill, who is ever ready to risk his life, and die if need be, in defense...
...quickly recovered by using Bankers Securities to take over City Stores (Oppenheim-Collins and Franklin Simon), Loft Candy Corp. (267 stores) and other diversified interests. Greenfield, a big booster of Philadelphia urban redevelopment and the Democratic Party, will be succeeded by Gustave G. Amsterdam, 50, an associate for the past 20 years and president of Bankers Securities since...