Word: virtuese
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"Failures in art," he said, "take refuge in abstract art, in morbid art, in perverted art-in short, in infamous art. These failures are like a leper who . . . insists on exhibiting his awful ulcers . . . [They] stimulate themselves with cocaine, morphine, marijuana, alcohol and snobbism . . . There is no room for abstract...
Swayed by Love. Miss Kent explains her novel and its denial of the virtues she has preached for years as "a kind of protest. I kept being torn between the nice living I've made out of radio and the sense of shame I have at turning out the...
This B film, more or less successfully masquerading as an A-with-a-Cause, has certain virtues: though four-fifths of the footage consist of phosphorescent Christmas card night scenes produced through a new use of infrared film, the rest of it-a porridge-colored dawn landing of the immigrants...
No U.S. President since James Buchanan had lived to such a ripe age. It was natural that Herbert Clark Hoover's 75th birthday last week should become something of an occasion. A controversial figure, Herbert Hoover, for many U.S. citizens, was still the symbol of inaction in a great...
A few optimists in the Charles camp hoped that by fight night their man might be mean tempered enough to go after Gus with all guns smoking, but cautious, self-deprecating Ezzard Charles ran true to form. In the near 100° heat of the stadium, Charles fought his usual...