Word: disappointment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Klee knew the course of his life and art precisely. "I have to disappoint at first," he confided to his journal. "I want to be as though newborn, knowing absolutely nothing about Europe; ignoring facts and fashions, to be almost primitive. Then I want to do something very modest, to work out by myself a tiny, formal motif, one that my pencil will be able to encompass without any technique . . . Pictures will more than fill the whole of my lifetime ... it is less a matter of will than of fate...
...speak on such a vital issue as he did last night, it scams to us that adequate provisions should be made to enable him to reach a majority of the people interested. However, this was not done and just as many that hear him speak were turned away, disappoint and disgusted...
Exam period is a tiresome ordeal but their Sears tour has done small wonders for the room's occupants. They are thinking now of taking the store's orders. It seemed, after all, a shame to disappoint the eager man who called up one day and barked: "Cut the nonsense and give me the automobile department quick. I want to order...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. offered a formal resolution asking the House to censure Velde and kick him out of his job. Junior's resolution (which will doubtless die in the Rules Committee) made Velde a party issue, and Republicans quickly closed ranks beside him. This will not disappoint the Democrats, who like to keep Velde's kind of bumbling Republican in the headlines...
...again, by the time you have read this column, you may have decided to conform. Don't let us disappoint you. Our tips may be more effective when teamed with this year's string-bean lines. Yet they'll certainly spike any old lore in the closet...