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...Beckmann's grim, ghastly Descent from the Cross - an expressionistic night mare which might have been influenced by the 3rd-Century belief that Christ was the ugliest of men (because He bore the sins of the world in His body...
This war was not only the greatest but probably the ugliest in human history. The war in the Pacific is, in some respects, more savage. But the war which swept over almost the whole of Europe, much of Africa and some of the Near East, over the Black Sea, the Mediterranean, the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic, was fought by the peoples who cradled 20th-Century civilization. It was fought with a brutality which exceeded that of primitive times...
Such prices were not unimpressive considering that in the '703 U.S. architecture and furniture design fell on its ugliest days. Had the United States Hotel been furnished 20 years sooner it would have caught the end of the gracious early-Victorian style-and its contents would have brought untold sums last week. As it was, few collectors and decorators wanted the garish brocades and machine-carved chair-and-sofa sets on the auction block. Records showed that most of this fusty flotsam had come from Manhattan's great A. T. Stewart department store, predecessor to John Wanamaker...
...many U.S. communities this week, whites and blacks tiptoed stiff-legged around one another, watching, waiting and a little afraid. The ugliest strand of the U.S. fabric had tightened under wartime pressure...
...shore and camp leave could easily have been canceled), the Los Angeles police apparently looked the other way. The press, with the exception of the Daily News and Hollywood Citizen-News, helped whip up the mob spirit. And Los Angeles, apparently unaware that it was spawning the ugliest brand of mob action since the coolie race riots of the 1870s, gave its tacit approval...