Word: queerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which turned out to be the hit of the show; eleven primitive charcoal and clay drawings on eucalyptus bark, done, not by Australia's high-brow artists, but by the paint-and-feather-clad, boomerang-throwing natives of the Australian bush. Showing animals, hunting scenes and spirits, these queer, childlike pictures were as unrealistic and imaginative as the screwball drawings of famed German Expressionist Paul Klee (TIME, Oct. 21). Some showed kangaroos and kookaburra birds drawn with their internal organs visible X-ray-wise through the skin. One, depicting a spirit, looked (see cut) like a child...
...rather gloomy,' I told her. 'Gloomy? Why? They don't think that Hitler is going to win, do they? We don't think so Downalong, not for a single minute.' " Mrs. Aitken, "the doyenne of Upalong," said: "The news lately has been rather queer, hasn't it? I was quite worried until Ronnie (her grandson) got out of Dunkirk." But every morning Mrs. Kennedy rushed down to the radio to find out if "it" had happened in the night. "Everybody seems to assume that the invasion will begin at dawn some...
...Oklahoma is a queer, wild state . . . a place where they arrest people on account of the books in their libraries, where a 'nigger's got to know his place' . . . where the Ku Klux Klan still ranges in their primordial shirttails through the cow pastures and where cro-magnon men still roam the wilderness in dinner coats and black ties. . . . Also where they do not allow Charles Lindbergh to speak...
Minus Times Minus Equals Plus. If ever a man had reason to be bewitched, bothered and bewildered by recent history's queer swerves, it was His Majesty Reza Shah Pahlavi. For 20 long years he had played with London, played with Moscow and never lost a trick. Actually he never played both ends against the middle, for he never needed to. During most of the 20 years, London and Moscow felt towards each other much as Georgia's Governor Eugene Talmadge feels towards Negro Ph.D.s and vice versa. But now, somehow, crazily, incredibly, these two irreconcilables stood shoulder...
...whole generation before the Surrealists made a fad of the subconscious, an affable, frail, dreamy little Frenchman was putting his most fantastic nightmares on paper. Even his tradition-busting contemporaries the Impressionists thought his work was queer. Up to the time of his death (1916) he sold his pictures (if at all) for as little as $15 apiece. Today he is a collectors' favorite, regarded by critics as one of the greatest painters of modern France. His name: Odilon Redon...