Word: various
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...layout of the color reproductions of his various periods lends weight to a theory of mine: that artists lean to abstract painting when war is in the air. (Picasso's 1914-15 and 1935-36 periods would correspond to the beginning of the World War and to the Civil War in Spain...
...social event of Palm Beach's 1939 season** to date has been the swank Everglades Club's Circus Ball. Preceding it, socialites of various shades paraded down Worth Avenue. Mrs. Aksel C. P. Wichfeld (Fifi Widener), insufficiently disguised as Sabu, led a real elephant on a leash. Polo players Winston Guest and George J. Atwell Jr., in pigsticking regalia, chased pigs, pretending they were boars. Society Songstress Adelaide Moffett Brooks impersonated Miss Palm Beach of 1939, followed by a Seminole Indian representing 1539, a chimpanzee representing A.D. 39. Evalyn Walsh McLean, as usual, wore the Hope Diamond. Jimmie...
...good reason why politically-wise Harry Hopkins made no specific suggestions in his speech was explained by the Wall Street Journal: "Various New Deal officials and agencies had squared away for an open fight on Mr. Hopkins if he stuck a critical finger publicly into their particular affairs and the Secretary was content ... to deal in generalities . . . and keep specific suggestions in reserve...
Last week was published E. B. W.'s second slim collection of little prose pieces-most of them from the files of The New Yorker-which will please the melancholy humor of many a modern Jaques. E. B. W. dips the broken reed with which he writes into various liquids-diluted acid, crocodile tears, the milk of human kindness; and the thread of his writing is like the trail of a sometimes sympathetic, sometimes exasperating, always bewildered insect...
Long-winded monologues delivered at House dinners, poorly attended conferences of the American Civilization groups, sporadic inter-House debates--these were once the only means of integrating ideas drawn from various fields. Then, a group of original men in Lowell House conceived the idea of a "symposium," consisting of student impersonations of great men of the past. In this way it was possible, for example, to portray the repercussions of Darwinian thought on economics, philosophy, literature, and religion of the nineteenth century. Last week a similar project, built around Marxist theory, was so successful that it stimulated a heated audience...