Word: selden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week bookstores were peddling a new and thorough biographical study of Shahn by Poet-Critic Selden Rodman (Portrait of the Artist as an American; Harper, $6.50). Rodman got most of his material from the horse's mouth, but could not make Shahn a horse of a definite color. What the book captures is the brilliant shimmer of a man too seldom at a loss. "Shahn," Rodman explains, "is a man of paradoxes...
Sugary Chromos. Resident Bishop Alfred Voegeli picked the subjects to be painted. Two American directors of Haiti's Centre d'Art, DeWitt Peters and Selden Rodman, assigned and supervised the work. The artists were bound to be influenced by the sugary religious chromos imported from Europe and tacked up in thousands of Haitian homes. Rodman kept insisting that they also incorporate Haitian scenes of the sort they generally paint. The result is an arresting but badly integrated mixture of "pious" and "native" art, made vital by rich colors and the intermittent lightning of individual inspiration...
...notion that the typical alcoholic is an elderly bum or a friendless misfit dates from the days when drunks were observed mostly in police courts and state hospitals. Dr. Robert Straus and Dr. Selden D. Bacon, sociologists at the Yale Center of Alcoholic Studies, decided to get some up-to-date information by sifting through the case histories of 2,023 alcoholics treated at the Yale Plan Clinic and others like it. Their findings: the average clinic patient is 41, married and living with his family, has held a job involving skill or responsibility for three years or more...
...only one of the curious gleanings that California Auto Bug M. M. (Wheels in His Head) Musselman has picked up in his lively retrace of U.S. automobile history, from linen-duster days to the present. He records all the major milestones, from the first plans drawn by George Selden of Rochester (1877), the first model of the Duryea brothers (1893), the water-cooled engine (1895), the steering wheel (1900), the windshield (1905), the left-hand drive (1909), the enclosed body (1911), the electric self-starter (1912), right down to such latter-day innovations as freewheeling (1930) and automatic transmission (1940s...
...James Selden Lay Jr., 38-year...