Word: sadly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sad Sweetness. Actually, Hackett's playing didn't show the great Beiderbecke's hallmarks-the exciting, edgy undertones of heat, or the restless, spontaneous search within a severely disciplined pattern. But it did show, then and last week, a beautifully clear melodic line, tasteful invention and a sad sweetness that tempered everything he played from Embraceable You to Jada...
John Sloan, 77, who has spent the past 20 years painting red-striped nudes in a downtown studio, remembers pre-Prohibition Manhattan as being "sweet . . . sweet and sad," and that was how he painted it. For him the canyon-like streets flowed with pretty girls and hurrying men-a warm swirl of humanity that his quick brush (trained for newspaper illustration in the days before news photography), caught in full flood. At night he painted Manhattan's vast, far sparkle, and did it tenderly enough to make onlookers sense the million lives behind the million lights...
Winter. "It is a very sad time. There are no leaves; there are no birds; there is no sun. And the snow makes everything so silent. I felt very well, but I did not like...
...modest booth at the fair held 29 of Picasso's proudest plates, painted with abstract and neo-classical motifs. Franchise's face-happy, sad or angry-his baby's smile, a bullfighter, a skeletal fish, were repeated often in his designs. There were also ten deep jugs and thin-necked jars designed as a sort of hollow painted sculpture. One of the liveliest was half-pot and half-owl. Picasso's pottery owed a great deal to archaic Mediterranean sculpture and ceramics, which represented beasts and gods in a similar bulging shorthand, but it also...
...sad parody of a political convention. The delegates had come from far & wide. Most of them were young, a few were Townsendite elders. They were the disgruntled, the discontented, the wishful, the wistful and the starry-eyed. They were a perfect front for the convention bosses...