Word: artful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kabuki or People's Theater is nowhere near as stuffy as the ancient and stylized No drama, but in 300 years, even the Kabuki has become a bit hidebound. Back in 1931, Japan's top Kabuki player, jut-jawed Actor Chojuro Kawarasaki, decided to liberate his art...
...Partly to avoid discouraging lesser-knowns, they had not been invited. The situation with regard to the biggest brush of all, Pablo Picasso, was tantalizingly obscure. Somebody (possibly Picasso himself) had signed his name to a list of French artists, most of them Communists, attacking the Marshallizing of French art. At the same time, Picasso had sold reproduction rights for at least one of his paintings, Mother and Child (see cut), to Hall Brothers, Inc. in a private deal last year. On the Riviera, old (67) Pablo Picasso labored in peace, saying nothing...
...otherwise classical collection of bronze and ceramic figures, done with clean, quiet simplicity, drew nothing but raves from the critics. It was a far cry from the mid-'30s, when his sculptures, seized by the state, toured Germany as warning examples of what Adolf Hitler considered "degenerate" art...
...spry man with a Germanic love of theory, Marcks makes no bones about what he thinks art should be. "It must be stimulating," he says. "I reject any art that simply amuses. Stimulation, as I interpret it, means leading men to the eternal laws, away from what is common, usual and mean...
...sophomores who are currently straining themselves to look like a pleasant surprise include Art Rouner, stroke of last year's freshman boat; Ollie Iselin, who rowed right behind him; Ted Anderson, a seventeen-year-old dark horse who failed to make any boat last year and Buffy Bohien, George Hewitt, and Clarence Asp, three more members of the '51 boat. Captain Frank Strong and perennial bowman Mike Scully are the varsity holdovers with Bill Leavitt up from the Jayvees as coxswain...