Word: transition
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...almost three months all efforts at compromise have failed. Both sides, convinced they are right, have refused to capitulate. The transit company meanwhile has suffered abortive losses. Until last week the situation looked like a question of survival of the fittest. Then civil authorities discovered a little used 1921 statute which prohibits "conspiracy, combination or agreement to interfere or hinder business." A Montgomery grand jury promptly delivered 100 odd indictments, all for Negroes and including 24 clergymen...
...parade included the eight artists shown on this and the following pages. The U.S. pioneers all employed varying degrees of distortion and/or abstraction. But their similarity stops right there. Seeing the contrasts in their art, few would take them for countrymen, let alone contemporaries. Tobey's Transit, for example, relates to no objective visual experience at all, unless it be that of images swimming in the tight-shut eye. Hartley's German Officer deals with a mood, not a visual image. Davis' Eggbeater beats the eggbeater into unrecognizable shape. Hofmann's Red Trickle celebrates an activity...
...ending Occidental art the same way. Tobey is today revered and reviled as the inventor of something called "white writing." Tobey's writing is, of course, quite illegible. Cast in loose, delicate swirls, it can soothe the restless eye as much as it may irritate the serene mind. Transit (at left) is a typical example. Speaking of such earnest, miasmal efforts, Tobey explains that "multiple space bounded by involved white lines symbolizes higher states of consciousness...
...chestnut horse that kiss each other. When the horse is condemned to death by its master (Pedro Armendariz), the little boy steals it and becomes what the title so stickily suggests. He hides the horse successively in a smithy, a barbershop, a ruined hacienda, a boxcar, a church. In transit, the camera takes the usual tourist shots of cactus, fiestas, religious processions, fireworks, cactus. They are all colorful, but the Technicolor looks as if it were printed on the back of an old tortilla...
...company for its cash. But the raiders regarded themselves as leading a revolt of the stockholders. Right or wrong, they put the pressure on industry's managers to produce or get out. In the proxy war of the year, Financier Louis Wolf son (Washington's Capital Transit, New York Shipbuilding, etc.) fought a losing battle to take over Montgomery Ward. But the overall effects of his fight were good. At 81, Chairman Sewell Avery finally stepped down; in came a younger management. Result: Ward sales increased 10%, dividends were raised 12%, and the company proposed...