Word: solid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mass bombing, probably by night, is a spectre that has overhung Great Britain for ten solid weeks. Every Briton has spotted the hole that he will go to when it comes. Every one supposes that, with all the time there has been to make ready, Air Raid Precautions will save the civilian population from such horrors as were seen in Barcelona and Madrid...
...Netherlands Indies is abundant. Dutch colonials grow rich on oil and rubber, fat on Bols gin and rijsttafel ("rice-table," a huge meal which requires a dozen natives to serve). Their activities at clubs are so serious as to be nearer worship than relaxation. The social hierarchy is solid and rigid as a marble staircase. After a party at the Harmonic Club in Batavia, Java, chauffeurs must line cars up according to their masters' standing, so that 20,000-guilders-a-year may drive off before 15,000-guilders-a-year...
...which bright, practically unfused colors are placed on the canvas in such a manner that the eye of the onlooker, rather than the brush of the artist, mixes the tones and gives them coherence. Perhaps an example would serve to illustrate my point: a barber pole contains stripes of solid, unmixed color; this is the palette. When the pole begins to turn, these colors are fused and mingled for your eye, not by your eye; this is the traditional method of applying paint to a canvas, the method used by all of the Old Masters. When you are standing perhaps...
...Cubism", for which the great Post-Impressionist Cezanne is largely responsible, is the organization of solid and full-bodied plastic cubes within a limited space. A Cubist would paint a landscape by directing the various trees and buildings into a series of lines and solids. It is almost as if he had built his painting with blocks and spheres. Each element in such a creation is placed with direct regard to its relation with the other elements. It is an intellectual method of presenting the essence of matter in its artistic form...
...signs in frontier districts, to confuse an invader. Bridges and key roads remained mined. At the same time, to release them for work at home, the Government demobilized the Class of 1924. No one really expected a German push, especially if the Dutch canals and rivers do not freeze solid this winter (as they did last...