Word: thrall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West from the fake-heroic fictional mold into which they had long been cast. Now in The Way West, Guthrie has irrevocably separated the covered-wagon pioneers of the 1840s from the busy, lusty book jackets and movie posters which have long held them in box-office thrall. Guthrie's humane and literate feat will have the mass of paying witnesses it deserves: The Way West, is the Book-of-the-Month Club's October selection...
...Rose Horse. But moderns were more interested in what Delacroix had thought about color, for his free & easy use of it sometimes foreshadowed the Fauves ("Wild Beasts") and modern art. In last week's Saturday Review of Literature, Critic James Thrall Soby described the storm that one of his canvases, La Justice de Trajan, raised in the Salon of 1840: "The picture barely survived the Salon's jury, an astonishing fact when we consider that Delacroix had been painting professionally for more than 20 years and was famous throughout Europe . . . Once accepted and hung, the picture created...
Colossal Fraud. He had just received from the U.S. James Thrall Soby's definitive book The Early Chirico (Dodd, Mead; $3), and denounced as "forgeries" two reproductions in it, one of them The Double Dream of Spring (see cut). The Paris exhibition made him even madder. Said he last week, in a letter to Rome's Giornale d'Italia: "It is a colossal fraud which could only be perpetrated in the French capital, due to the absolute decadence into which the so-called art circles have fallen...
Arise, ye slaves, no more in thrall...
Arise, ye slaves, no more in thrall...