Word: protean
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...Protean Babbitt...
...Thank you for giving wider currency to the wise words of Peter Viereck on the protean Babbitt [TIME, July...
Once long ago, Pablo Picasso warned an inquisitive American lady not to "ask questions of the man at the wheel." At midcentury, Protean Pablo is still grasping the wheel of modern art, and most people are still wondering whether the boat is hopelessly lost or merely off on an extended voyage of exploration. This week in Europe, hundreds of dauntless American ladies and their husbands were once again doggedly searching for a first-hand answer...
...long theological poem, Bacchus, which he finished in China in 1939. Strictly constructed and packed with systematic puns, it has the mass and polish and concealed energy of a jacketed turbine. The divinity in question is not only the releasing god of drunkenness and wit but God Himself, protean and powerful...
...those who wish Picasso had kept his art "recognizable," the docents can quote the protean genius's own words. "What do you think an artist is," he once burst out, "an imbecile who has only his eyes?" They might also suggest that baffled gallery-goers become willing "imbeciles" themselves-using their eyes to the full, and not asking too many questions. But that of course might do away with the docents...