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...theory that even Kazmaier cannot pitch too accurately when the back of his neck is in contact with the ground. The other way is to almost totally ignore Kaz and blanket his receivers, except on running plays. (This is where the optional running pass makes strong men weep...
...least reluctant to use his photographs as painting notes. Among the people who dislike his work are esthetes who think his realistic pictures overly .sentimental and sentimentalists who dislike their grimness. Shahn energetically belabors such easy targets. "Is there nothing," he roars at the esthetes, "to weep about in this world any more? Is all our pity and anger to be reduced to a few tastefully arranged straight lines or petulant squirts from a tube held over a canvas?" To the sentimentalists he says: "All the wheels of business and advertising are turning night and day to prove the colossal...
...recent works are as short of smiles as ever, but they are also short of things to weep about. As one of his friends puts it, Shahn at 53 may still have one foot in Union Square, but the other is firmly planted in the abstractionists' circle. If his latest painting, City of Dreadful Night, is a protest picture, it can only be the bleary protest of a man trying to sober up at Coney Island...
From Teheran came reports that Mossadeq himself would fly to the Council meeting, to argue, and probably to weep and faint, in defense of his government's reckless course. Possession (in the old saying, nine points of the law) was on his side...
...soured by the breath of scandal. More serious was the fact that investigations of organized crime growing out of the Kefauver hearings were getting nowhere. In New York a swarthy little gambler called Harry Gross insolently defied the law to do its worst, and the district attorney could only weep in helpless anger...