Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present the A backfield is composed of Chief Boston as quarterback, Vernon Struck fullback, and Art Oakes and Bob Stuart the halfbacks. Boston is a power on defense, a mauling blocking back, a spine crackling line bucker. Oakes' speciality is hurling passes. Stuart and Struck will alternate on most of the running, Stuart being perhaps the more clusive, Struck the better faker...
...thinker, anthropological researches into primitive cultures have refreshed the past, illuminated the present, enriched Man's theory of himself. This week one of the most brilliant living anthropologists, London's Bronislaw Malinowski, introduced to U. S. readers an emigre German professor's study of primitive art as "one of the first contributions to real anthropology . . . the only objective, clear and telling documentation of native opinion on Europeans...
...have made fetish figures fashionable and thereby encouraged Paris ateliers to fake them by the carload-the Lips book will have value in clarifying the historical background of an unassimilated artistic influence and indicating the future possibilities of its assimilation. Professor Lios insists that all analogies between genuine primitive art and the drawings or modelings of children are unsuccessful. Savage kingdoms in Africa and the South Seas, for example, developed through settled centuries a mastery of their native materials and deep traditions of style. Natives in New Ireland did carving with mussel shells which no 20th Century artist could imitate...
Perfect example of the art which grew up in Mediterranean sunlight and in contempt of all barbarians North, East and South (see above) is the art of fresco painting. On the island of Crete and in Egypt as early as 2,900 B. C. artists were already masters in the technique of mixing sand, lime and water to form a smooth wall covering, painting it while still wet with wet pigments in extremely delicate and elaborate designs. From that day to this, however, the skill of the fresco painter has depended largely on his speed, because the time limit...
...Puerto Rican postman a brown girl in a white shift has just received and opened a letter by which she appears greatly affected, as well she might. It reads: "Puerto Rico miuniera ilaptiumum! Ke Ha Chimmeleulakut Anga-yoraacut. Amna Kitchimi Autummi Chuli Wapticum itti Cleoratatig tit." To the art officials of the Treasury Department, who hired Mr. Kent, as to other civil servants including Post Office Department guides, this gibberish had seemed merely one more artistic whimsy. But Mr. Stefansson said it was a message in the Kuskokwin dialect of Eskimos in Southern Alaska which meant: "To the people...