Word: explainers
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...greatest who ever lived. 'You can't take Vienna, Your Majesty. The world won't stand for it,' his nitwit ambassadors said. 'The hell I can't,' said old Fred, 'my soldiers will take Vienna and my professors at Heidelberg will explain the reasons why!' Hell, I've got a university down in Louisiana that cost me $15,000,000, that can tell you why I do like...
...Classicism. As an example of his new school's work he presented his own canvas entitled Genesis. Similar to fresco painting in technique, it showed a young lady's rear, her navel reflected in a mirror, a rising sun, an egg, half an avocado pear. Attempting to explain the difference between this and old style Surrealism, Artist Lorser Feitelson wrote...
...Robinson, President Roosevelt, stated that he would veto either the Patman or Vinson bonus bill, should one of them pass Congress. The news is thankfully received by all thoughtful people in the country, for passage of one of the other appears certain. Many people feel that President Roosevelt should explain his attitude and muster public opinion solidly behind...
...indeed indefensible; one hopes, however, that Mr. Wickham, in his ardor to defend classicism against the enemy, is not leaning over backwards, for all the modernist idols--except the obvious frauds--possess a perfection of their own, which the best modernist critics, at any rate, are gravely anxious to explain and to applaud. So one must really be cautious in his demolition; Picasso, for example, would not be Picasso if he were not privy to certain secrets unknown by Giotto. The attention paid to him is only superficially due to a "justifiable reaction from the ideas of the XIXth century...
...Japanese explain General Kenji Doihara to Occidentals as "our Lawrence of Manchuria." It was perfectly all right, they say, for Great Britain to detach Arabia from Turkey during the War by sending Colonel T. E. "Lawrence of Arabia" to stir up the tribes. Therefore has not General Doihara's work in Manchuria, Japanese ask, been equally all right...