Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pablo Picasso once warned a baffled interviewer not to "ask questions of the man at the wheel." People think he is sometimes off his course, but the aging (65) helmsman of modern art presumably knows where he is going. For 40 years he has let others debate his painting for him. The debate was hot as ever last week...
...actually knew this fabulous city on the border of Europe and Asia which, since its first stirrings under petty tyranny to its coma under a modern machine of domination, has been the most isolated of the world's great capitals...
This week shrewd Manhattan Art Dealer Sam Kootz opened a group show devoted to the weird shapes modern painters had made of women. His prize exhibit was a painting by the high priest of painful distortion, Pablo Picasso. Picasso's recent "Woman in Green"-a pink snout snoring over a swamp of green swirls-had successfully enraged London last year and was now appearing for the first time in the U.S. Georges Braque's supporting contribution was a painted plaster bas-relief of woman as lo, a harried heifer...
...into archness, but her selections are almost all first-rate. Daniel Defoe and Jonathan Swift are among the old pamphleteers and balladeers represented; later hands include George Borrow and the Edinburgh lawyer, William Roughead, whom many connoisseurs consider the dean of crime writers. Neither police nor detectives in the modern sense existed in the 18th Century. Parish constables were amateurs serving a term, and parish watchmen were aged criers, of small use in chasing or collaring villains. Novelist Henry Fielding, while a magistrate, founded London's "Bow Street runners" to pursue criminals- the catch being that the criminal...
Edward J. Flynn, boss of The Bronx, is far less colorful and articulate than Penrose, far more aware of the significance of his job than Kelly and his kind. Flynn is the new-style boss, well-educated, personable, thoroughly equipped to understand the more complex aspects of modern government. His machine is run from an office building, not from a hotel lobby or a clubhouse. It has a filing system, bylaws and rigidly constructed channels of command...