Word: poignant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...transition to democracy has its confusion too. The memories of '33'-45 are repressed, but poignant, and they sometimes come to the surface in weird ways...
...seen walking down neon-gaudy Broadway. Just five blocks south of the august concert hall, he ducked into a cellar. Within a few minutes Concert Pianist Friedrich Gulda was on the bandstand, amid the smoke and clatter of Broadway's famed Birdland nightclub, playing jazz-cool, glittering and poignant as icicles. Sitting in with the Modern Jazz Quartet, Pianist Gulda rippled out chorus after chorus of Lullaby of Birdland while the hipsters shouted approval. "How much nicer this is than Carnegie Hall," sighed Pianist Gulda when closing time came...
...want of real movement, its mere alternations between fact and fantasy, prove fatal. But lacking outward progression, Mrs. Patterson needs real leverage of words, real voltage of imagination; it needs moments that leave bright stains, that illuminate and transform. The contrasts it gets are emphatic without being poignant, the alchemy it practices is toward lead rather than gold. There is nothing discreditable about the play's failure; it shows no lack of courage, only of talent...
...once, he would try anything, and always with exquisite craftsmanship. Until his death, Dove's painted patterns of blobby color and flickering line gained steadily in emotional refinement, but their refinement resulted in a kind of fragility. Seen with the utmost sympathy, some of his best works are poignant as bird cries; looked at in a less receptive mood, they lose their point...
Echoing Deknatel's sentiments, J. W. Fowie, assistant professor of Fine Arts, stated, "To one who knows Matisse only in Matisses, this death will soon be irrelevant. Matisse will always promise exhilaration to eye and spirit and can only briefly be clouded by the familiar, poignant realization that one of the grand old men is gone...