Word: shorted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...then, on the cold, wet night of December eleventh, 1958--just eight short months after John Ciardi had despaired of a major professional production for years to come--on the stage of the ANTA Theatre, at the corner of 52nd Street and Broadway, Archibald MacLeish's "play in verse" received its New York City premiere. The production had enlisted a somewhat disparate but unquestionably distinguished group of the biggest talents in the business: Elia Kazan, Boris Aronson, Raymond Massey, Christopher Plummer, Pat Hingle. Everyone involved, in Newsweek's candid prose, was taking "a calculated risk; the drama had arrived...
...said, "but this fall the location on Massachusetts Avenue was suggested." He pointed out that, with construction already announced, the University is "committed" to its building project in the Square, while a wholly new building on the Kirkland site might meet complications if the Program for Harvard College falls short...
With Thanksgiving just weeks away, Arthur Flemming last Monday gave cranberry growers the short end of the wishbone. Experimenting with "aminotriazole," a weed-killing chemical that some Pacific Northwest growers use in their bogs, government chemists had produced cancer in the thyroid gland of a mouse. "Just to be on the safe side," Flemming, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, advised America's housewives not to buy any cranberries until extensive testing had been completed...
...about 1917, Modigliani's drawing reaches a consistently high standard of draftsmanship. With a few swift and caressing strokes, as in Lola, Modigliani can evoke a lovely girl, sitting at her ease, looking alertly at the viewer. Drawn in the last year of the artist's short, wantonly bohemian life, A Young Man is especially enjoyable for its intricately balanced composition and its artful, linear suggestion of facial volumes...
...Gertrudian bosom," as Van Wyck Brooks put it, "much like that of their far away prairie mothers, but of a most gratifying sophistication. Miss Stein gave them back their nursery rhymes and they had fine babbling times together." As for for own writing, apart from a trio of impressive short stories, Three Lives, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, and the moving play-opera Four Saints in Three Acts, Gertrude Stein was not so much the hoaxer as the hoaxed. She tried to purify words by divorcing them from meanings and using them as pigments or notes. At best...