Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lasar Segall paints violence from memory. A Jew, he spent his youth in Tsarist Russia. In 1912 he won minor fame by being the first Cubist to exhibit in Brazil. In 1923 he went there to live. As a Brazilian, brown-haired Lasar Segall has painted jungles, plantations and coffee-handling with a realism that does his naturalization papers credit. Last week, at 49, Artist Segall made his U. S. debut at Manhattan's Neumann-Willard Gallery with a show of oils, water colors and etchings. Critics were impressed...
Other lectures and events planned for the weekend are: "Youth Movement and Politics," by Heinrich Bruening, ex-Chancellor of Germany; "Care of the Health of the Harvard Student" by Arlie V. Bock, hygiene director; "Reflections on Europe" by Samuel H. Cross, Professor of Slavic Languages...
...City of New York. Puffing out his decent cheeks in righteous indignation, the Right Reverend William Thomas Manning wheezed that the eminent Briton had a past. And a lurid list of exploits it is, one than should automatically disqualify him as an instructor of the pure and innocent American youth. For the Earl has been married three times, divorced on charges of adultery, and has specifically defended in his writings sexual relations "as a purely private matter which does not concern the state or the neighbors." What is to become of us, with this "propagandist against morality" on the loose...
...Bishop need not blush for youth's pained surprise when it hears this moral monster, or expect an era of free love to be ushered in. Students of college age no longer have to go back of the barn to whisper the facts of life. His is a naive, almost insulting, estimate of the moral fibre of youth. Extended the hospitality of C.C.N.Y., and due to give twelve guest lectures at Harvard next year, Mr. Russell will offer his many hearers a glimpse of a trenchant mind, and a taste of new knowledge. And medieval blasts...
...around him--a world of grasping New England commercialism, and of corrupt barons of industry--and smile quietly, bless it, and retire to his home in the village of Concord. His faith was a pure, white flame, and then and ever since it has had a great appeal to youth. But today, in this world of "Grapes of Wrath," Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Finland, its light is nearly winking out. What is there left...