Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Selling Point. In Manhattan, Kans., Ellis Stackfleth invited an accident insurance salesman to come back later, followed him out of the house, fell on the icy pavement, broke...
...Judging from the writings of Captain Liddell Hart, Rundstedt, at least, was primarily a military man, unlike Keitel, Jodl, etc. If this be the case, the treatment given and in store for him appears to lack justice. All that is necessary to illustrate this point is enough imagination to contemplate a defeat for this country at some time, whereupon the then Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton and Hodges would promptly find themselves "war criminals...
...From an early age," says the Secretary of State, "this made me impatient with people who said this step is leading to socialism and the next step will be Communism and the next step will be antiChrist. To my mind the point is, how do you deal with this problem? They say if you do this or that you will end up in socialism. Nuts...
...Corcoran put on a show to put the protests in perspective: a selection of some 59 paintings most representative of a century (1830-1930) of U.S. painting, set side by side with what contemporary critics had said about the works. The show's title was to the point: "De Gustibus . . ." Double the usual crowds went to the Corcoran...
Apples & Attraction. The Corcoran induced its visitors to write down what they liked and why. One well-established, if conservative, point of view came from a man who particularly liked William J. Glackens' Nude with Apple (1910): "Of all things on earth,'women are the most beautiful, and this is an honest picture of an attractive woman." One young woman seemed to have got the Kunastrokian point the show was intended to make. She liked the paintings of the 19305 (which included works of ultra-Modernists Abraham Rattner and Karl Knaths)-just "because is because is because...