Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their own hunting grounds and, for self-preservation, intense feelings of solidarity. Members of other hordes were alarmingly different in customs, speech, appearance. In addition, these outsiders might poach on the hunting ground, steal roots and fruits. Hence it was an act of merit to kill them. As the art of hunting improved and methods were found of storing food, famines diminished and the hordes grew larger. Small, weak hordes were exterminated. The increase in size and decrease in number of the groups continued. Today the groups are nations. But the primitive feeling of simple hostility to the stranger survives...
Stages, scaffolding, a litter of broken plaster and a husky ex-cowboy occupied the small, tall Gallery of Contemporary American Art in the Detroit Arts Institute last week. Occasionally letting out a hearty "goddam" when something went wrong, the ex-cowboy was delicately daubing soft hues on the wet plaster walls, shaping dreamy, feminine figures...
...migrating to California, John Carroll grew up in San Francisco and on his father's cattle ranch, boasts that he "knew" the Barbary Coast intimately before it was spoiled." He studied engineering at the University of California until his practical father gave in, shipped him off to study art under Frank Duveneck in Cincinnati. "After six months," John Carroll recalls, "I was sure I knew more about painting than Deveneck and he threw me out of his class...
...sure he was going to be killed before the War ended, risked his neck whenever possible.l He says he could not be bribed to ride in an airplane now. After the War he settled down to the practice of painting , taught for one year in Manhattan's Art Student's League before he went to a well-paying professorship in the Art School of Detroit's Society of Arts and Crafts six years...
WOMAN ALIVE-Susan Ertz-Appleton-Century ($2). Recommended particularly for women pacifists, this sketch of the world in 1985 is a bitter indictment of male stupidity. Author Ertz foresees a civilization which has mastered the art of living but still resorts to war. Following the use of a new type of poison gas in a short but destructive international conflict, all females but one die of a mysterious disease, leaving the men in wild despair. The accidental survivor becomes queen of England and hope of the world...