Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When I paint," Pablo Picasso once said, "my object is to show what I have found, and not what I am looking for. In art, intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by facts and not by reasons." A new edition of Verve, in U.S. bookstores last week, showed proofs of Picasso's recent finds and loves...
...Facts. Most of all, say the docents, the public is "bewildered by the absence of facts" in such paintings. Comparatively naturalistic artists such as Cézanne and Van Gogh get a worshipfully warm reception, the museum says, and for Salvador Dali, whose surrealism depends on meticulous realism, "the audience has an especial place in its heart." Even Picasso is admired for his early "blue period" and neo-classical pictures...
Before the balloting, everybody had his say. Urged the board minority: "The issue . . . is whether the Guild, to which [Buchanan] has paid his dues, will represent his interests . . . just as a lawyer represents a client with whom he may disagree." Said the majority report: "The contract provides that there shall be no discharge except for just & sufficient cause . . . We believe membership in the Communist Party to be such a cause . . . We do not feel that we can require a newspaper to retain a reporter who no longer has value." It wasn't just a case of which-party...
...author does not accept this activity as patriotism in time of war, nor does he accept the scientists' broader claim that they are not responsible for the way the world utilizes their discoveries. "I would say," writes he, "that this is the No. 1 fallacy of the scientific mind . . . Certainly they are responsible . . . Certainly they can control how their new scientific principles are utilized; certainly they have to consider the implications of their research, and not merely strive blindly for facts, facts, facts...
...with the licentiousness of Greco-Roman civilization, it became the staunch advocate of matrimony. The Church even tried to keep Christian marriages from going on the rocks by offering its members advice more detailed than anything Dorothy Dix ever attempted. Saint Chrysostom (347-407) wrote that no wife should say to her husband: " 'Unmanly coward and lazy sluggard, look at that man . . . His wife wears jewels and goes out with a pair of milk-white mules. She is attended by a troop of slaves, but you have cowered down and live to no purpose.' But if a wife...