Word: sobering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Expressionism is not so much a school of art as of attitude: it requires the artist, while sober, to behave as if drunk. The damn-the-torpedoes dean of the school is Oskar Kokoschka, 69, who signs himself "O.K." and is proving very much O.K. in Salzburg this season. Kokoschka's sets for a festival performance of Mozart's Magic Flute were the hit of the show (TIME, Aug. 8), his summer art school in a fortress overlooking the city was going strong, and an exhibition of his last three years' work drew raves from the critics...
Albert Benjamin ("Happy") Chandler is back from political oblivion. When the final returns from Kentucky's Democratic gubernatorial primary (TIME, Aug. 8) were counted last week, Happy had the nomination by an 18,500-vote length over his sober young opponent, Judge Bert T. Combs...
Crime stories began to make even the most crime-hungry U.S. daily look sober by comparison. Recently, when a British sergeant was convicted of murdering another soldier with the help of his halfbrother, two British weeklies got articles from 1) the murderer (I THOUGHT I HAD GOT AWAY WITH IT), 2) the half-brother (WHY I GAVE MY BROTHER'S MURDER SECRET AWAY), 3) the murdered man's sister (WHY I KNEW MY BROTHER DID NOT KILL HIMSELF), and 4) the soldier's wife (I AM TO BLAME...
Into the Sun. Much was undecided and unknown, the scientists emphasized. "This is just a beginning experiment and you don't know until you start . . . where you go from there. You want to crawl in space before you fly." But fantasy flashed irrepressibly through their sober scientific pronouncements: "It should be barely possible to see it at twilight with the naked eye . . . certainly with a good pair of binoculars ... It will be illuminated by the sun, just like the moon . . . very much like a little moon...
...Senator in 1939-45, was noisily on the comeback trail (TIME, April 11). "Happy" Chandler was wowing the voters everywhere with his own special brand of political minstrelsy. His opponent for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, Judge Bertram T. Combs, 43, of Prestonsburg, was still campaigning in a sober, solemn fashion that failed to win many laughs but was clearly winning some sober, solemn votes...