Word: stylish
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Georges Bernanos is concerned with the least stylish of possible human attributes: holiness. "Compared to it, even the urge of genius is a frivolous game. Lord, every life finely lived bears witness to You. But the witness which is borne by saints must be torn with irons out of their bodies...
...Wolfgang Paalen, a Netherlands-born Parisian, whose particular Freudian fairyland looks like an Arthur Rackham landscape that has begun to putrefy. A member of Paris' "younger school" of dream-painters, Surrealist Paalen is fervently opposed to Old Master Salvador Dali. Reason: Dali is getting too much gravy. Glib, stylish and frightening as last year's millinery, Wolfgang Paalen's cobwebby paintings at the Julien Levy Gallery are constructed in a method all his own. Surrealist Paalen smears his canvas with an even coat of white paint, then holds it over a burning candle, gets...
International frictions, like Paris frocks, run to style. And just as frocks which pursue vogue too breathlessly make ladies stick out in the wrong places, stylish frictions often make nations look silly. Recent fashion in creating conflicts has been to discover an oppressed minority. Last week, as long-smoldering Hungarian-Rumanian feelings suddenly flared up, the style slipped over into the realm of absurdity...