Word: western
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There are differences between the Chinese and Western attitudes toward mountains. . . . Chinese poets are inspired by mountains to write poems. . . . Mountains in China also serve as inspiration for suggestive landscape paintings. The artist does not necessarily have to visit the mountain. He can lie on his back and dream. . . . Now we have Mr. Reynolds, holding an atomic pen in his hand. . . . He knows the value of using mountains to publicize his name and his pen, while the Chinese know only about burying themselves after death in mountains which are famous...
...Japanese schoolboy. He wears horn-rimmed glasses and a porkpie hat, smokes a pipe, and says he has "no time" for golf any more. He is too busy working, nine hours a day, on the sorts of pictures that fill most of his Whitney show: ragged, melancholy still lifes, Western landscapes and dusky figure paintings. Each painting begins with a detailed charcoal drawing from the model, which he modifies from month to month as he sees fit. "I play with my paintings," he says, "and I sometimes have a dozen of them going all at once...
...right understanding of the revolution that has taken place in Asia in the last 40 years. ... If the European was feared because he was strong, admired because he was clever, and trusted because he was believed to be honest . . . [now] the West has lost its opportunity of domination. . . . Western civilization is no longer regarded as civilization...
Elmo Roper (Sun. 2:45 p.m., CBS), totting up the answers to his survey of Western European opinion (see INTERNATIONAL...
Only Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. showed any improvement. There was plenty of room for it. T.W.A. reported a 1947 loss of $8,079,760, as compared with a 1946 loss...