Word: surrealistes
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...rather unorthodoxly in a jumble of gurgles, splutters, and smothered rattles. After Harvard's second touchdown his cheer rose like unto the sereech of a siren. When his voice fell it was too late, for his false teeth had already fallen, presumably into the mess of feathers, flora, and surrealist architecture which some women's hat-maker is probably proud of. At least that was where he looked for it, much to the consternation of the woman thereunder...
...began to prepare their galleries along broad 57th Street and teeming Madison Avenue for the return from Salzburg, Paris, Vienna, London of the patrons by whose trade they live. Old and young art dealers were perking up despite the torpor of the stock market. Julien Levy, the introducer of Surrealist Salvador Dali (TIME, Dec. 14 et ante), pioneer in many a modern artist of fashion, announced the removal of his gallery into more spacious quarters on 57th Street. Meanwhile private and public galleries carried on with the last few weeks of their summer shows, adding here and there a room...
...There were also "A Peasant Scene from a Jewish Point of View," "The Manifestation of the Soul of the Jewish Race" and a group called "The Derision of the German Women." But the greater part of the exhibition was devoted to specimens of the cubist, futurist and surrealist schools whose experiments with scientific form and fantastic subject matter have made a Gordian knot of artistic theories. Art critics in Paris, London and Manhattan last week regarded Adolf Hitler's latest slash at this knot as possibly something more than the action of a man who lacks either the subtlety...
...puzzle, not a surrealist limerick, the foregoing verse is a sample of the 50 "charades" contained in this second book of poems by the famed, well-beloved 77-year-old senior master of The Hill School, Pottstown, Pa. The whole word, obtained by guessing the first, second and third syllables, is "nightingale," but the sly author makes his readers work even harder to be sure of this. His 50 answers at the back of the book are written in cryptograms, and "nightingale" reads ezulnzeuowr...
...anthology, New Directions in Prose and Poetry ($2), including a translation of a famed essay by Jean Cocteau on the Painter Chirico, four good poems by Wallace Stevens on the Idea of Man, suave Surrealist stories by Montagu O'Reilly, fantasies by Henry Miller, incorrigible author of the more-than-Rabelaisian Tropic of Cancer...