Word: twist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind the turnout there was more than vernal interest in a vernal theme; there was also the Muscovites' incessant quest for the latest twist of the Communist Party's line...
...wrenched the wheel further around, by refusing to paint precisely what they saw. They also painted what they felt about it, and they inclined to look more at their pictures than at their subjects. It remained for the living moderns, led by Picasso and Matisse, to give the final twist. A painting, they decided, is a painting first and foremost, and whatever it represents must be secondary. Granted that much, they felt perfectly justified in making their own rules, regardless of "appearances." Some (the nonobjective painters) chose to ignore nature altogether, but Henri Matisse never went that...
...Twist. A mountaineer, asked why he persistently tried to scale Mt. Everest, answered with some surprise: "Because it is there." The same answer could be made by many explorers. But with the growth of science, the most romantic impulses were given a stringent, practical twist...
...classics? Of course not, said Capp. He told of a typical American family ("named Kinsey, of course") that wanted to shield young Kingsblood, 11, a comic fan, from "stories of murder, crime, violence and S-E-X." Before the Kinseys were through, said Capp, they had thrown out Oliver Twist, Alice in Wonderland, Shakespeare and everything but the phone book. Cracked Capp: "Mr. Brown is sorry that Li'I Abner isn't Huckleberry Finn. I'm sorry that Mr. Brown isn't George Jean Nathan...
...between a mother and her small girl, and the story is refreshing in its lack of any sort of artifice and in its genuine communication of the child's knowledge that she is loved. Miss Seliger makes the mistake in marring the directness of her story by a final twist, but even that might be excused on the grounds that it is the child's realization that she will never again to be loved so completely...