Word: types
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...near monopoly that the slash and drip school of painters has clamped on the Manhattan art world for the past decade is beginning to crack up. The first signs of change came with the shift to a gentler, moody type of semi-landscape-painting which critics are calling abstract impressionism (TIME, Feb. 20, 1956). Last week one of the leading pioneers of abstract painting stunned his comrades with an about-face show that pointed to a new and radically different solution. See ART, The Bottle...
Pasha Pants. First came the Mardi Gras traditional "Mystic Krewe"-70 men dressed in crown-shaped hats, yellow sailor-type collars, ballooning gold pants. gold sashes and white masks. Next came the "King," Louisiana Industrialist (forest products) Parrish Fuller, who was costumed in a jeweled crown, aquamarine pasha pants and cloak. Then 26 pretty Louisiana "queens" - Yambilee (i.e., yams) Queen, Shrimp Queen, Cotton Queen, Livestock and Pasture Queen, etc. -each accompanied by a masked "Duke" in wig, buckled shoes and knee breeches. Each queen curtsied low to the evening's guests of honor, Vice President Richard Nixon...
...quiet type when he is not playing literary lion for the public, stringy Author Colin (The Outsider) Wilson, 25, was about to sup one evening with his true love, mousy Joy Stewart, 25, in his bohemian quarters in London's West End. Without warning, the door of the book-glutted flat was suddenly flung open and in burst Joy's enraged father. "Aha, Wilson! The game is up!" roared Accountant John Stewart, 58, brandishing a horsewhip. Beside Father Stewart stood his wife, bearing a sturdy umbrella, plus Joy's younger sister and brother. Confronting the steamed...
...lecture Conant expressed doubt that the Communist educational system could offer solutions to the "complex problems of an industrial society." He stated that "one must wonder" at the idea that Communism's "exclusive attention to the dogmatic type of deductive thinking" could provide answers to present-day human problems...
Playwright Carolyn Green's epic untidily spins out the thought that a women needs two men to satisfy her needs--an intellectual etherial type to minister to her soul and a breadwinning family man to keep her in expensive clothes. This theme Miss Green manages to spin out for a heavy handed, and for the most part, unfunny three acts. Poorly crafted, the script seems almost a parody of the stock devices that are supposed to make a "hit," or as the play bill calls it, a "wildly romantic comedy." The specifics of the plot involve the wife...