Word: numbering
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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When Rodin died in 1917, he had made spontaneity the rule instead of the exception in sculpture. A few of his followers, among them Aristide Maillol, Wilhelm Lehmbruck and Jacques Lipchitz, combined it as he had with a thorough knowledge of the body and the classical tradition. The greater number used it as a substitute for knowledge. Many of those in last week's show were like men who, having never learned to sing, just shout. There were others who seemed not to belong in the exhibition at all. The doughnut-soft abstractions of Jean Arp, the polished simplifications...
...rate movie palace . . . Varnished benches present a comfortable resting place for faithful buttocks. A drawing-room organ emits sugared water. A pulpit . . . two or three pots of flowers, that is all the decoration. Some temples retain an altar, but this outmoded object serves only to support a still larger number of flower pots...
...include songs from their countries." Aristocrats and foreigners alike seem to enjoy one of his prescriptions: his dance arrangements of familiar arias from Italian operas. So far he has turned bits from The Barber of Seville, Rigoletto and Trovatore into sambas; one of his biggest hits is a dance number derived from Carmen in which he sings a jumble of meaningless words in a high falsetto while the rest of the band chimes in with a robust Toreador chorus...
...Culprits? Many newspapers currycombed the woods for scapegoats. In the influential Emporia Gazette, William L. White angrily charged the war to an Administration plot to influence the elections by the "heaven-sent opportunity of Korea ... Until we are stronger ... we should try to cut to the bare minimum the number of wars we enter solely to win local American elections." The New York Herald Tribune blamed General MacArthur for a "colossal military blunder" and said it is "impossible to put confidence in the military capacity of a headquarters which has so gravely compounded blunder by confusion of facts and intelligence...
Italian novels were still being imported, but in diminishing number and quality. Best of a thin lot was Alberto Moravia's Two Adolescents, two fine, perfectly turned long stories about difficult boyhood. Worthy but dull, at least in translation, was Riccardo Bacchelli's ambitious, much-praised historical novel, The Mill...