Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...becomes saner as the room, perhaps, grows more comfortable, and the wind decreases in proportion to his loss of interest in Nathan esque bitterness--he comes to realize that this disease of college cramp is, after all, not without its purposive helpfulness in his life as a writer, an artist...
Especially does he so inquire if he is an artist--not the mental midget of pseudo-aesthetic tendencies, but the occasional person who wants to create rather than criticize, to build rather than to fresco other people's buildings with the rococo delineations of his embryonic criticism. He is mentally tired. He has learned that better writers, painters, musicians than he can ever be have not only preceded him, but have left their art for the catalogues of word epicures and the text books of higher criticism. The flames do or do not leap high in his fire place...
...newsstands, was eagerly bought and discussed by the practitioners of the trade. Singing, its first readers found, was somewhat patchily made up. It contained an article by W. J. Henderson, critic, who pooh-poohed the popular reverence for opera stars, calling Emilio de Gogorza, concert baritone, "the supreme artist of them all." It was embellished by a page of caricatures of famed musicians, by a blurred "Art Supplement," and by a song entitled "A Memory" and beginning: Somehow I feel that thou art near, Though naught there is around, which the composer, one Rudolph Ganz, dedicated to Marguerite Namara, opera...
...American sculptors take any position against the employment of fine artists from other countries in order that they may get the work themselves, I will do everything in my power to stop any such sculptor from getting any work on the Cathedral. . . . Neither the trustees nor I will be dictated to by any artist or any sculptor whatever...
...competition has been opened to all undergraduates except Freshmen regardless of whether they are members of the Hasty Pudding Club or not. The artist who submits the winning design with automatically become a member of the club...