Word: pureness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Artists Imbeciles? Then, 20 years ago, the master stopped measuring; his art grew more & more violent, more & more like pure emotion. He twisted women, dogs, Greek heroes, horses and table lamps into paroxysms of rage or frustration. He built monuments of painted bones, drew "pictures" that were nothing but dancing lines and dots, made a "Bull's Head" out of a bicycle seat and handle bars. He protested the German bombing of Guernica (in the Spanish Civil War) with a massive mural whose ugliness is its strength. "What do you think an artist is?" asked Picasso. "An imbecile...
Magic Sandwich. Most recent gadget is the "birefringent filter," designed in 1940 by Dr. John W. Evans of Chabot Observatory, Oakland, Calif. It is a multi-decker sandwich of thin quartz plates and sheets of polaroid, which passes only light of a single pure color. Accomplishing the same object as the spectroheliograph, it is much more effective and easier for astronomers to use. When built into a coronagraph, it lets the complexities of the sun's atmosphere be seen in all their terrifying glory...
...Society's directors predicted a Gomorrah-like conflagration, the new secretary, Louis Croteau, embarked on a policy that conceded to Evil on short-run objectives, but went down the line when it came to the greater dangers. These were, and are, according to Croteau, commercialized gambling, professional and simon-pure prostitution, the narcotics trade, and obscenity...
...pure space-gliding, only cheaters use power. But Professor Herrick believes that real space ships will use their power in spurts to correct their courses and climb steep gravitational grades. He does not hanker to make any voyages himself but he has thought deeply on the subject. "On a voyage to Venus," he says, "we should take both sexes, if we plan to do any colonizing...
...opening scene was pure George Bellows-a seedy Bowery-type bar in the year 1912, littered with slumped and sleeping drunken bums.* Soaks of all descriptions-a Harvard man, a British infantry captain, a Boer War correspondent, a Negro gambler, an unbadged police lieutenant, a disillusioned anarchist-they had been reduced by rotgut to creatures of one baggy shape. What kept them hanging by a claw to life was the kindness of the drunken-bum saloonkeeper (finely played by Dudley Digges), and their pipe dreams, their mumbling that tomorrow would turn up a winning card or bring forth a better...