Word: sameness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Huey's feud against "lyin' newspapers" (still carried on by Brother Earl Kemp Long, now running to succeed himself as Governor) exploded in a court order for contempt proceedings against the New Orleans Item-the same Item that once offered Huey a job. Marshall Ballard'...
In London, hairy old British Portraitist Augustus John, incorrigible bohemian, foe of the Royal Academy, glared at an exhibition of landscapes by his daughter, Vivien, then bought another artist's painting in the same show. Asked his opinion of his daughter's work, he snorted: "Rubbish!"
In Manhattan's sombre old Grand Central Palace, through whose innards move dozens of expositions every year: whirring, clanking, buzzing, gurgling machines, bottles of queer-looking powders, crystals and liquids-the Exposition of Chemical Industries. ... In Manhattan's far-from-sombre Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, under soft lights, on...
This season, grand opera at Manhattan's Metropolitan opened with a slightly fussier fuss than usual. Last week, however, the Met got in the groove-a few new voices and a new red carpet, but the same old scenery, same old gilded box holders, and opera's perennial...
The world of medicine boasts some 6,000 medical journals, almost a tenth of them in the U. S. A major requirement for scientific publication is dullness. All articles in British and U. S. journals are cut to the same hidebound pattern: The problem is stated, its history reviewed (often...