Word: queerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thrusting down into the Yellow Sea to within 100 miles of Japan, is more than a Japanese problem. It is a Japanese obsession. With an older culture than the Japanese (whom they helped civilize), Koreans are traditionally pastoral, home-loving. Since 1910 Japan's policy has been a queer combination of savage repression and grotesque attempts to mollify the people...
Morris Graves's queer-looking gouaches, disembodied pictures of weird, woebegone snakes and spindle-legged birds, were the show's No. 1 hit. Totally unlike anything hitherto dreamed of in U.S. art, they somewhat resembled the wiry expressionist fantasies of famed Swiss Painter Paul Klee (TIME, Oct. 21,1940). Hopping about an ornithological fairyland, or standing gravely among heaps of what looked like luminous spaghetti, Painter Graves's fossil-like birds were painted with the delicacy of Chinese landscapes...
DOUBLE OR QUITS-A. A. Fair-< Morrow ($2). Accidental poisoning of a California doctor looks queer to pint-sized Donald Lam, who clears it up in his own rough, ready and staccato fashion. The plot is more intricate than in earlier Lam tales; the solving just as good or better...
Even the compromised bill was too much for the House. Lined up against the committee's bill was a queer, potent alliance: the farm bloc, Republicans who still smarted under their defeats on LendLease and Neutrality Act revision, Congressmen who distrusted the New Deal, Congressmen who distrusted Leon Henderson, Congressmen who distrusted price control...
...Miss. Unlike most young writers, she likes her home, her neighbors and her life in general; she sets all but one of her stories in her home State. But, like many Southern writers, she has a strong taste for melodrama, and is preoccupied with the demented, the deformed, the queer, the highly spiced. Of the 17 pieces, only two report states of experience which could be called normal, only one uses the abnormal to illuminate any human mystery deeper than...