Word: vaguer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlike the best of his earlier drawings, these are vaguer in outline, foggier in theme, harder to unravel. Like them, they feature literal and psychological nakedness. His first two books were worth the time of anyone who was willing to look at himself in psychic undress and momentarily exchange his individuality for the plight of today's mythical Everyman. Dean doesn't have "entirely different thoughts now" (see cut); he merely has more incomprehensible ones. Psychiatrists may decide that Dean is now poking around at a deeper level of the subconscious; to plain folks and old-fashioned artists...
...very ill, he sent his brother a self-portrait head which seems to burn like an electric bulb, with nerves for filaments. "You must look at it for some time," he wrote. "You will see, I hope, that my features are a good deal calmer, though my look is vaguer than formerly...
...Luck. Bikini left plain people as worried as Pravda, but for different, vaguer reasons. In Paris' rue Cambon, about 25 minutes' walk away from the Big Four Conference Hall, the day after Bikini a long narrow mirror fastened to a wall suddenly fell to the ground without apparent cause. A crowd gathered about the broken glass that boded seven years of bad luck to someone. A frowzy woman murmured: "The atom bomb." The people near her nodded gravely...
Potsdam declaration would not be known until the meaning of some of its vaguer phrases and omissions was cleared...
Simple Arithmetic. Such conviction is sometimes tiresome, even oppressive to vaguer men. Once Baruch's old friend, Senator Carter Glass, was told by a colleague: "Baruch is too dogmatic." Said Senator Glass: "Yes. Especially on a proposition like two plus two equals four. Bernie can be dogmatic as hell about that...