Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stock at propitious moments. . . . Actually they are worth from $25 to $50, but they are sold in terms of old masters-according to scarcity values. "It is talk that keeps Picasso's pictures alive; and when the talk ceases, his art will cease to exist. Its vitality is verbal." Matisse is a "rug maker," a "pattern maker," a painter of "lolling odalisques in diapered interiors." "When we say that his emotion is but another name for bourgeois well-being and that a fraction of it, equally distributed, informs his designs, we have said all that can be said...
...masterpiece of verbal tight-rope walking. Criticism of the New Deal from conservative newspapers has been, for the most part, stupid and banal, taking the line that "traditional American ideals" are in danger. The doctor professed to take this as a legitimate danger; he indicated that he abhorred it, too, only--the danger was the other way around. That is to say, the real American ideals antedate the ideals of those who find their ideals endangered by the New Deal. It is confusing, of course. It can be made more delightfully confusing by saying that the democracy that Roosevelt democracy...
...Autumn Crocus" was one of the successes of last year both in New York and in London. It is a recoil from the hard-boiled type of comedy that is represented by Mr. Noel Coward, being written in the tradition of Barrie. Instead of depending for its appeal on verbal celverness, or shocking lines it sets up in place of these an air of quiet pleasantness and of deliberately sentimental romance. It is difficult to draw the line between tenderness and a sweetness that becomes sickening; but Barrie was able to do it and it is done with almost...
Obviously Nemesis is right in saying that the stuffed shirts of present day corruption don't mind any verbal formulation that he or I can invent. Neither Nick Butler nor any other sustainer of Monty Norman minds being addressed as venomous serpent or by any other 18th century pejorative, but they run silent from INFORMATION...
...philosophical schools of the modern world, might find, for the second time, that Thomism alone can balance them, and form an unshackled instrument for the exploration of the universe. Mr. Maritain has said many times the things which Mr. Chesterton says in this book; but Mr. Chesterton's great verbal skill, and his cheerful confession of propaganda, are good reasons for saying them again...