Word: staleness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Groucho on the trio's retirement: "Our stuff is stale. So are we. . . . The fake mustache, the dumb harp player, and the little Italian who chased the ladies were funny at first. But it became harder with each picture to top the one before. To get out of the groove we have to get out of the movies...
Receiving TlME-by-Air is like eating fresh bread again after years of diet of stale bread...
...question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master-that's all." Last week the big debate went on, but these two small books cut through the stale, stalled arguments of isolation v. intervention to the real problem-the problem of U.S. power and morale. Hitler wrote that, for Nazis, morale comes before guns. Those who had watched the moral catastrophe of France knew that for democracies too morale is crucial...
...reason for their belief they had the manifold evidence of how far short was the production of many needed arms, of the whole civilian defense machinery running without any responsible head, of uncertain policies, of fresh confusions piled on stale confusions...
When it was founded in 1917 the Society of Independent Artists did more than any other U.S. organization to break the stodgy, stale tobacco-juice-landscape and frock-coat-portrait traditions that had clung to U.S. art since the late 19th Century. In those Academy-ridden days, the Indépendents' free-for-all (patterned after Paris' famed Salon des Indépendents) offered artists with new ideas their one big chance. Many exhibitors at the early Independents shows later became famed figures in the U.S. art world. As the years went by, as modernism changed from...