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...drawings, made during the Nazi occupation of France, were simple, linear statements of the things Matisse likes most to see-flowers, faces and figures. He believes art should be a "mental soother . . . devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter. ... It is through [the human figure] that I best succeed in expressing the nearly religious feeling that I have towards life. ... I do not care to repeat [details] with anatomical exactness." The pictures look as though Matisse had been looking at the model, not the paper, and acting out what he saw with fine, free-swinging gestures of his right hand...
...Year'' I wish to nominate the man responsible for America's continued peaceful attitude, the soother of all worries of foreign powers involving us in war. . . . Secretary of State Cordell Hull...
...week a job he invented and made famous: dean of men at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign, Ill), Graduate of Illinois (1890), onetime professor of rhetoric, onetime acting dean of the College of Literature & Arts, he became in 1909 the first U.S. dean of men: chastener of delinquents, soother of parents, information bureau, helper of the needy, social and moral adviser. A year ago he reached 67, age limit for university officials, was asked to stay on until the University's new president, Harry Woodburn Chase, was installed. Also, they wished him to break in his successor, Fred...
...forbearance of women to pains" lets them endure the pangs of drug withdrawal; bad associations were to blame for almost every drug user in New York; nine out of ten drug addicts use heroin alone, or in combination with morphine, opium, cocaine, laudanum or paregoric (opium derivative, oldtime baby soother...
...ranging from the philosopher who does not understand his own sexual frustration and so is writing a book to show that all the world is Christ and is suffering on the Cross, to the hotel proprietor's wife who, after a life of scrubbed floors and emptied cuspidors, is soother in the arms of death by the kisses of an understanding doctor. The book is sane and almost completely damnatory, but one is left with the thought that, after all, Sherwood Anderson is hopelessly and rather endearingly American...