Word: acrobatic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poet who perhaps came closest to succeeding was 68-year-old Wallace Stevens, a Hartford insurance man, in his latest book, Transport to Summer. W. H. Auden, an intellectual acrobat and a verbal magician, turned out 1947's most discussed book of verse: The Age of Anxiety. This modern eclogue described a chance meeting of four paper-thin characters in a Third Avenue bar; its moral was ex-radical Auden's glowing belief that worldly goods must be rejected. The verse itself was dexterous, bright but self-indulgent...
Paris admires a tiny, intense chanteuse named Edith Piaf. An itinerant acrobat's daughter with a patched-skirt childhood, she specializes in songs about love-battered girls. Last week, as the star of a continental variety show, Mlle. Piaf began singing (mostly in French) her drab ballads on Broadway. She flung them out resonantly, acted them out skillfully and sometimes appealingly. But she was not half as much fun as nine very gay young Frenchmen on the program, billed as Les Compagnons de la Chanson, who sing a song well and spoof a song wonderfully...
...minute May was urging an ordnance colonel to "get a nice, big contract" for his good friends Murray and Henry Garsson to manufacture artillery shells. The next, he was demanding draft deferment for an acrobat friend of Murray Garsson. Then he was back to see if the Garssons could not get an Army contract to build wooden watertanks...
Oops! When-by virtue of guile, luck or the dexterity of an acrobat-he gets a seat, he immediately becomes conscious of another startling fact. The seats are too small, and his posterior is subject to the same grip which clamps once exerted on the necks of photographers' victims...
...show, entitled "The Big Top," opened last week. Dealer Samuel M. Kootz borrowed Picasso's pinwheel-shaped Acrobat from Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art for the occasion, invited six young U.S. abstractionists (Calder, Motherwell, et al.) to paint circus pictures to go with Léger's. The catalogue cover hopefully urged gallerygoers to see clowns, tumblers, bareback riders, and other intrepid performers. Some of their jigsaw abstractions looked as if they had played with kaleidoscopes instead of seeing a circus. Léger's Acrobats with White Horse and slant-eyed, four-ringed Chinese...