Word: starkly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...simplicity itself. In all scenes he uses a wash and fine ink lines. The backgrounds are almost uniformly a depressing blue. Seldom has any modern painter so eloquently depicted his subjects with such an economy of line. Every delineation is expressive, every curve is significant. There is something stark, some terrible frozen fear in every face. Shahn's creations seem to be cowering under some upraised fist...
Worcester: goal, Numez; r.b., Stark; l.b., Sharp, (Capt); r.h., Abererombie; c.h., Francis; l.h., Haran; o.r., Terrance; i.v., Banett c.f., Arias; i.l., Baranakes; o.l., Alias...
...Press was startled and shocked last week when one Hyman Stark, 20, died at the hands of the Nassau County police, guardians of New York's most swank and civilized area. Arrested for beating and robbing a county detective's mother, Stark was put in the "goldfish bowl" (a bright bare room for inquisitions) at Mineola headquarters, given the third-degree for eight hours. An autopsy showed Stark died from a fractured larynx, complicated by a cerebral hemorrhage. His body was horribly marked. Explained the District Attorney: "Some overenthusiastic police officer broke that man's Adam...
Cleveland is in the main stream of things modern and smart. Cleveland applauded importantly two years ago when Doris Humphrey of Manhattan's Dance Repertory Theatre, lecturing at the art museum, called the ballet "an artificial type of toe-dancing." German Dancer Mary Wigman brought to Cleveland her stark rhythms, her "rich speech of the body." Semenoff, intensely devoted to the oldtime ballet-school style, muttered that she was "devoid of grace, devoid of soul." He at least would make his pupils worthy of the old Imperial School. But his pupils, who had once included many a rich...
...they cannot deny paternity for the other. . . . For ten years we expanded far beyond our natural and normal growth. . . . Corporate profit was enormous. . . . The consumer was forgotten . . . the worker was forgotten . . . the stockholder was forgotten. Enormous corporate surpluses . . . went into new and unnecessary plants, which now stand stark and idle, and into the call money market of Wall Street...