Word: quainted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...facts that count against him in rural and heavily Protestant north Louisiana. Last week Chep Morrison was at pains to emphasize that he was a "native of Pointe Coupee parish," and that he had "lived and worked in the central, southern and northern sections of Louisiana." He found a quaint way to discount any religious prejudice that might militate against him. Said he: "During my administration as mayor for the past ten years, religion has not entered in any way into my administration of the city's public business...
Through the years on shipboard, Wouk had been pecking away at a novel. Aurora Dawn was written in an 18th century style as quaint as a minuet, but it dealt with a 20th century subject, "the contrast between the rat-race values of the radio-advertising world and the stable values of an Old Testament hillbilly prophet who gets mixed up with it." Wouk thinks of it as "a compendium of first-novel errors," but the Book-of-the-Month Club grabbed it. From that day to this, Wouk has pursued "the hard, borderline trade" of writing with monastic dedication...
Reischauer's boyhood in Tokyo was neither queer nor quaint. His parents, both educational missionaries still respected throughout Japan, did their best "to make up for the distance from home by being as American as possible." When the 16-year-old Reischauer came to the United States and Oberlin College in 1927, he was therefore prepared for baseball, basketball, and varsity tennis. Whenever his Japanese background did get in the way, he tried to conceal it. "When I hitched rides. I used to make up a lot of false home towns so I wouldn't have to go through...
Gate of Hell. A Japanese legend of quaint war and fatal lust, wrapped in a rich kimono of colors (TIME...
Thus Painter Everett Shinn summed up the turn-of-the-century standards: idealized nudes wrapped in cheesecloth, banal studio models posed in quaint period costumes. Into this world rushed a group of artists who, by the genteel standards of the day, behaved like sandlot hoodlums bent on showing only America's dirty face. Their talented and dashing leader was Robert Henri, goad and teacher to more than a dozen leading American painters. Last week, with the biggest collection of Henri's work to be shown since 1931 on display at New Jersey's Montclair Art Museum, tribute...