Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mexican Painter Diego Rivera, an on-again, off-again Communist Party member, found old ties still binding. When he sought a visa to attend a Los Angeles testimonial dinner, the U.S. embassy politely referred him to Attorney General J. Howard McGrath. Protested Rivera: "I don't have the honor to belong to the Communist Party. I'm just a simple democrat like anybody else...
Painter Fausett once took a fling at modern art, still likes some of it. "But," says he, "it doesn't belong inside a frame. It's decorative and that's all. Braque, for instance, is at his best in tapestries." Lucioni, who paints barns in a studio barn of his own, is too much awed by nature to tamper with it in his pictures: "When I'm out in the woods I have the feeling that I'm in an immense cathedral...
...ball cleared the right-field screen, sailed across Bedford Avenue and came to earth in a parking lot about 415 ft. from home plate. The Cardinals won, 5-3, and there was no joy in Brooklyn. There was still less in the first inning of the second game that day when Musial belted another homer to give St. Louis a two-run lead. Things looked black in Brooklyn, but it turned out to be the darkness before dawn. The desperate Dodgers got down in the dirt, clawing and scratching, and won the second game...
...reviews and audience apathy caused This Is Broadway to switch from being a Lonely Hearts clinic to a variety show, spiced with Fadiman's pontifical urbanity, Burrows' gags, and the astringent flavoring of Kaufman's strong dislikes (nightclubs, classical music, opera). The panel still listened to problems, but with more than half an ear for contrived comedy. (A soprano complains that her father won't let her go to Dallas without a chaperone. Fadiman: "Doesn't your father trust you?" Soprano:. "Yes, but he doesn't trust anyone else...
While brokerage firms were hustling in the hustings, there was still a virgin market in at least one big city. The 1949 consumer survey made by the St. Paul Dispatch-Pioneer Press reported that 90% of St. Paul citizens in top salary brackets had never bought a share of stock or a corporation bond...