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...explain it,' said the professor. 'In the first place, they're all packed in. They communicate their impulses to one another. They are high-school adolescents and they have been released from school after the midyear examinations, and they are all single and unattached, and they are all maturing sexually, and they have no regular biological outlets for their drives. . . " The darkened theatre shuts out inhibitory reality, and all their minds are focused on one thing. . . . They do sound like goats, don't they...
...happened. Drawing is not a process of clear and deliberate thinking, it seems to me a function of eyes and nerves. . . . As a centipede may not be quite aware which of its limbs it puts forth first and which is to follow, I am quite unable to explain to myself why I draw a line one way and not another. It always seems to me compelling, as if it could not possibly be different-but I never know why. Let physiologists and psychologists explain the mechanical functions and the psychic impulses that originate art. I am merely an artist...
What exotic Cecil Beaton, the London and New York society photographer, was nonetheless expected to explain last week was this microscopic lettering discovered by Columnist Walter Winchell in a small corner of a sketch Artist Beaton did for the Feb. 1 issue of Vogue: "Mr. Andrew's ball at the El Morocco brought out all the dirty Kikes in town." The sketch, bordering an article on cafe society, included several simulated newspaper pages. A tiny sheet headed Daily Mirror, which carries Mr. Winchell's column, was labeled Broadway Filth. In another small space Artist Beaton had written: "Cholly...
Meantime, in his exuberant enthusiasm the President has put his foot in several hornets' nests. A large part of his time last week was spent in explaining that he did not mean what he had said. He had to tell the Advisory Council not to take too seriously the trust-busting speeches of Harold Ickes and Robert Jackson. He had to explain that he had no intention of reviving NRA evenin a modified form. When his talk of a supercommittee on co-operacy aroused the jealousy of Congressmen and the suspicions of his liberal advisers, he countered with...
...good-looking woman osteopath of Miami tossed the subject of "mercy deaths" into the news again last week by poisoning her incurably sick daughter Barbara and then trying to kill herself. In a typical note Dr. Frances A. Tuttle tried to explain: "Barbara is sick. . . . I don't want her to stay behind and suffer. . . . I am too tired and sick to hold...