Word: understands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Artist Crawford was right [when he said .". . . Most people won't understand"]. After studying Test Able [TIME, Dec. 9] for two hours, I'm convinced...
...theme, earned barely enough to live on, though the public thought much more of Ms work than he did. "At the age of six," he once remarked, "I had a passion for reproducing form . . . but even at 70 I had little skill. Only at 73 did I begin to understand how rightly to represent animals, birds, insects, fish, plants. At 90 I shall be better, at 100 I shall be sublime; at no I shall give life to every line, to every dot. Let no one mock at these words...
...songs are the show. There is little scheme or reason to the way they are strung together, but they are there, done up in some of Hollywood's best whipped-cream arrangements, and spiced with song-and-dance people who seem to understand what Kern was singing about. There are plain actors and a story in "Till the Clouds Roll By," but the best idea is to sit back, close your eyes and just listen to the music. You won't miss a thing...
...because through her I get an idea of the American way without straining my brains. But Dick Tracy and Moon Mullins are not very funny to me. . . . Terry and the Pirates are a mere children's story. . . . Li'l Abner is a cartoon I can't understand...
...basic difference between the quick & the dead is ability to grow. Biologists feel that if they could understand growth, they might understand what life is. But growth in nature is complicated. Within a growing cell are hundreds, probably thousands of chemical compounds, their molecules weaving in & out, exchanging atoms and energy. Like a nation, the cell imports (absorbs), exports (excretes), and is influenced by its environment: the innumerable chemical substances in the plant or animal juices outside its frontiers...