Word: adolphe
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...yearning for nature as a source of metaphor, as in the pantheistic paintings of Arshile Gorky; sometimes its sources lay hidden in the unconscious, as with Pollock. Except for de Kooning and Franz Kline, most of the Abexers--Gorky, Pollock, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, William Baziotes, Barnett Newman, Adolph Gottlieb, Clyfford Still--saw the socially grounded activist art of the 1930s, whether Nativist like the Regionalism of Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton or left-wing Social Realist, as provincial, shallow and irrelevant. "Poor art for poor people," sniffed Gorky. They wanted to dive deeper. They valued the primordial...
From its stone fortress overlooking Rock Creek Park, the Behl clan has steadily gained influence since 1916, when Senator Adolph Behl aspired to become Vice President of the U.S. His failure to get the nomination left his wife doubly disappointed: first because she was denied a higher rung on the social ladder; second because her husband could not even fulfill his ambition to become second best...
...traced the history of The Times from its purchase 100 years ago by Adolph Ochs, who was Jewish, through its grossly negligent coverage of the Holocaust during the Second World War, to the notable presence of Jewish columnists and other writers at the paper today...
Smith tied Adolph Rupp as the winningest NCAA basketball coach when North Carolina beat Fairfield 82-74 in the opening round of the East Regional. But Smith's 876th victory wasn't nearly as easy as everyone predicted...
...team; and a scholarly paper arguing for America's entry into World War II: "I believe in the dignity of the individual, in government by law, in respect for the truth, and in a good God; these beliefs are worth my life and more; they are not shared by Adolph Hitler...