Word: mannerized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Their fathers may be pants cutters, college professors or margarine magnates, but they can run for Vice President, discover vaccines, smash the atom, teach Latin, or, in the Mitty manner, dream violently of heroic adventure...
...four children), workers with families have gone into a different kind of income bracket from the young bachelors or the young marrieds. If the young workers in the factories want to strike for benefits today, they would have to go it alone. Thus in an odd manner the welfare state has blocked another path for genuine improvement of conditions...
Land of Fury (J. Arthur Rank; Universal) is laid in New Zealand and has Maoris instead of Indians. Jack Hawkins acts the white settler in a manner wooden enough to qualify him as a Hollywood cowboy, while Glynis Johns is the ever-loving wife who forgives his playing games with a native enchantress named Laya Raki, even if the Maoris won't. Despite these novelties, the film very nearly talks itself to death before getting around to the big battle scene where all the adult whites are satisfactorily slaughtered. The film ends with a new boatload of settlers landing...
...reasons are not hard to find. Thomas returned to poetry what people used to expect of it: joy. His work was sometimes tortured and anguished. It could be obscure-not obscure in a deliberate, cultish manner, but in the sense that an excess of color can produce darkness. But far the larger part of his verse is ebullient, drenched with sight and sound, rich in haunting new language fed from old and sparkling springs...
...already moving away from completely spontaneous expression toward a more "thoughtful freedom." In "1908" he showed that the passing sensations of moment did not completely define his feelings. From this point on, his goal seemed to be a "condensation" which would maintain his emphasis on "arranging in a decorative manner the various elements at his disposal for the expression of feeling" while at the same time trying to arrive at the essence of form. The "Bathers ..." shows simple architectural use of color and line so exaggerated as to more fully express the form Matisse felt was important...