Word: almost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...please him enormously. "All my life," he exults, "I've studied the works of other artists-Raphael, Griinewald, Memling-but do you know what enabled me to free myself from their influence, to satisfy myself with my work? Operational shock! "In 1941 I had a serious operation and almost died. But I survived, and I thought, 'Look, Matisse isn't dead!' With this extra life I could do as I pleased. I could create what I'd been struggling all these years to create. My work may seem more joyful than in the past...
...pictures in the show included something by almost every first-rank U.S. painter. Edward Hopper had sent along a harshly lit Conference at Night that was rock-solid in composition and rock-bare in theme. It made a notable addition to Hopper's hard comments on the loneliness and scantiness of a lot of city life-paintings that bite deeper than propaganda pictures of the "social-consciousness" school ever could. By contrast, Grandma Moses' glowing, not very "primitive" Out for the Christmas Trees and Louis Bouche's slapdash evocation of the New Lebanon Railroad Station, though just...
Beckmann, who took out his U.S. citizenship papers last year, teaches at the Brooklyn Museum Art School two mornings a week, turns up at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel almost every afternoon at 5:00 for a cup of solitary coffee amidst the potted palms. "It is there," he says, "that I make my fantasies for my work." He often puts fish in his pictures "because I like fish, both to eat and to look at. Also they are symbols." What do they symbolize? "Geist-spirit," Beckmann replies positively. "But the man who looks at my pictures must figure them...
...sprinkled nearby news columns with deliberate errors in geography. But the edition was hardly on the streets before phone calls from indignant readers began to. come in, denouncing the editors for taking a ruler to the French when they couldn't get things right themselves. By the time almost a hundred readers had caught a single error, Le Figaro's editors were ready to admit that 500 Frenchmen and 12 pollsters could be wrong...
...Again. Father Berard Haile (pronounced high-lee) has been at St. Michael's almost since it began. When he came to the mission as a young priest in 1900, it was a small experiment that seemed to have every chance of failure. Beginning in 1539, the Spanish Franciscans had given generously of their labors and their lives (more than 300 were martyred) to convert the Indians-with practically no success. In 1828, the last Spanish Franciscan withdrew. It was not until the century was almost over that American Franciscans decided to take up the work once again. With three...