Word: straightforwardly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Barrier at the Pyrenees. A little later Pfeifer issued a more diplomatic, but no less straightforward, formal statement: "I've been asked, what is the U.S. going to do about Spain? I think the order of the question is wrong. I don't mean to be harsh when I say Spain is a secondary problem to the U.S. The U.S., however, is a primary problem to Spain. The real question is this: 'What is Spain going to do about the United States?' Only the Spaniards themselves can answer that...
...offers a superbly warm performance of No. 93 (the NBC Symphony Orchestra, Guido Cantelli conducting; 6 sides). Recording, on 45 r.p.m.: excellent. London FFRR'S release of No. 101, "The Clock" (L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet conducting; 2 sides, LP), is less warm, more straightforward. Recording: good...
Really There. There were a few fine portraits. Lester Bentley's George Wyckoff Jr., a straightforward picture of a boy whittling, looked like a good bet to win the exhibition's popularity prize. Charles Hopkinson's carefully constructed Double Portrait of a mother and daughter showed the dean of U.S. portraitists at the top of his form. At 80, Hopkinson is more than ever concerned with creating an illusion M>f reality on canvas. "Things are really there," he explains, with a diffident wave of his hand, "so why shouldn't one try to capture...
...similar U.S. landscapes, there were purple-shadowed chateaux and blue and green glimpses of the Cote d'Azur. Roger Chapelain-Midy (45) had contributed an end-of-holiday picture that was one of the hits of the exhibition. Entitled The Month of September, it was a subtle yet straightforward portrait-done in the rich, muted colors of honey and white grapes-of a girl sitting in a walled garden with its last fruits in her lap. Ex-Cubist François Desnoyer was represented by a solidly constructed harbor picture in colors as bright and brassy as boat whistles...
...trials is far more successful than previous attempts at the topical article have been. It deals with the efforts of military prosecutors to convict the officers and men of a German regiment for the murder of American prisoners of war during the Battle of the Bulge, and is a straightforward account of brutal tactics used by the prosecution, based on facts which the editors say were uncovered but not printed by a large metropolitan daily. As a piece of reporting, the Malmedy article is a fine...