Word: straightforwardness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Theodore Spencer, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory and chairman of the English department committee which administers the Fund, calls him "one of the younger poets ... honest and straightforward . . . whose war poetry gives a good physchological account, and physical description...
...unprecedented flood of children's albums was ready for the Christmas trade. The newly recorded daydreams and nightmares ranged from Nelson Eddy's bellowing like a whale to Jose Ferrer's reading of Mozart and Schubert biographies with symphonic accompaniment. Best of the lot: a straightforward dramatization of Oscar Wilde's poignant fairy tale, The Happy Prince, starring Bing Crosby and Orson Welles (Decca, 4 sides) and Balladeer Woody Guthrie's original harum-scarum Songs to Grow On-Nursery Days (Disc, 6 sides...
Like most artists, Lurçat liked medieval tapestries best. He admired their storybook symbolism, straightforward drawing and economical restriction to blacks, reds and yellows. At Aubusson, Beauvais and the world-famous Gobelin tapestry works in Paris, descendants of the medieval masters still labored. But their models were mostly second-rate Italian engravings and 18th Century boudoir muralists like Boucher and Fragonard. Twentieth Century tapestries used as many as 14,000 different hues of thread, took years to finish. But medieval ones, designed to be "frescoes in wool," used as few as 17 hues and were far simpler to weave...
...General, a veteran of 30 years in the Regular Army, analyzed the subject in the same straightforward manner, testifying against peacetime conscription before the House Military Affairs Committee in February...
...Confidence." Essentially the VA is an enormous business and sociological enterprise-and Omar Bradley is neither sociologist nor businessman. But he has other qualifications-a professional soldier's careful mind, a straightforward approach to his tasks, a reassuringly homely character. His is a steady hand...