Word: artful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paul Mus, wartime De Gaullist leader in Indo-China and an authority on Indo-Chinese archaeology, will deliver a lecture at 4 p.m. this afternoon in the Fogg Art Museum...
Bull fighting is a strange sport to most Americans, but to some aficionados it is a supreme art. Other art forms are merely reflections of life; the corrida de torros (festival of bulls) is the realistic struggle of life and death with unfeigned violence and power. Man and mind fight the brute strength of the bull with skill and artistry...
...lesson seemed obvious: in art, as elsewhere, imitation is dull sport. The hundreds of suckling surrealists who had aped De Chirico's youthful work had accomplished very little. And when De Chirico himself took to imitating Rubens, and other long-dead masters, such as 17th Century Romantic Salvator Rosa, his own highly personal painting went...
...Pickering's sage comment cut two ways, of course. It might reduce an anti-modern-art splutterer here & there to temporary silence. It could also make those on the other side of the fence feel uncomfortably esoteric...
Ingrid Bergman, wife of Dr. Peter Lindstrom, neurosurgeon, has a ten-year-old daughter and a pleasant Hollywood home. She has also had a smashingly successful career. But her last two movies (Arch of Triumph, Joan of Arc) did not measure up to her own standards of art. "I am willing to break my neck," she told a reporter, "to do something new." After she had seen the Italian-made prizewinning movies, Open City and Paisan, she wrote Director Roberto Rossellini: "If you ever need an actress with a Swedish accent, just call...