Word: personal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beyond Nakedness. The trouble with most people who look at a painting, said the experts, is that they can't see the leaves for the tree-and consequently don't recognize what kind of tree it is. Said Novelist Aldous Huxley: "A person who looks at a Titian solely because it represents a naked woman is not getting the full content of the picture...
When the experts got around to discussing specific paintings, the fog really shut down. Hung for their consideration was Joán Miró's Person Throwing a Stone at a Bird. Looking at it, James Johnson Sweeney led off with: "Let's take the mood first. The mood is gay. The mood...
...case of William James Sidis, the ex-child prodigy who sued the New Yorker for rediscovering him in his clerkly obscurity with ', "Where Are They Now?" piece. The court granted that Sidis' privacy had been invaded-but threw out the case because, as Sidis had been a person in the public eye, the story still "possesses great reader interest...
...produce his play about Moliere. Saxon is ready and eager, but the process is not entirely simple. Saxon is a man of considerable charm, vitality and at least surface ability; but he is also something of a maniac. His mania is to charm, dominate and, if possible, destroy every person who falls within his spell. The little improvements he insists on disembowel Eric's play, and Eric himself is so helpless a victim of the charm that Mrs. Busch (nicely played by Susan Hayward) leaves...
...Freeman invitations to lecture at the Army & Navy War Colleges and the Army's staff and command school. They also brought him the admiration of such men as Eisenhower, Marshall, Patton and Nimitz. Freeman still guides visiting generals over the Civil War battlefields near Richmond and no living person knows the terrain so well...