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Word: unicorn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rorimer recalls, "consisted in picking out the finest works of art from large groups of photographs. It was a case of looking at both the forest and the trees, developing selectivity." As a student, Rorimer became increasingly fascinated by medieval art, pasted in his scrapbook pictures of the famed Unicorn tapestries, which are now a special pride of The Cloisters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Rising Connoisseur | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

...does one catch a unicorn? Simple. "A virgin girl is led to where he lurks, and there she is sent off by herself into the wood. He soon leaps into her lap when he sees her, and embraces her, and hence he gets caught...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: As They Ought to Be | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

Readers may also join the lively game that Translator White plays among the footnotes and try to puzzle out what animal, vegetable or mineral the Middle Ages mistook for unicorn, dragon, griffin, basilisk, etc. White guesses that the poison-breathing basilisk was very likely the cobra, but thinks the griffin was strictly mythological, in fact "something of a Hieroglyphin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: As They Ought to Be | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

...51st Dragon, taken from the text by the late Heywood Broun, is the second cartoon in U.P.A.'s (United Productions of America) series of comic legends for moderns. Like the first, an animation of James Thurber's Unicorn in the Garden (TIME, Oct. 26), it is a nasal little ballad that ends with a sly intellectual hiccup. The admirers of Donald Duck and Woody Woodpecker and Porky Pig are not likely to be broken up with hilarity. Still, it is refreshing to laugh at an idea instead of an oink, and the kidding of medieval styles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Snap Dragon | 4/19/1954 | See Source »

...some real ones and, in a series of natural-history films culminating in The Living Desert, dragged new kinds of beauty out of the depths of nature. In cartoons, Disney was challenged by Stephen Bosustow and a company of imaginative young artists. The Tell Tale Heart and The Unicorn in the Garden did their subjects from Poe and Thurber proud, and set new landmarks in the animator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Year in Films | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

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