Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These manuscripts, loaned to the University by George A. Plimpton of New York, are here for only a short time. They are the life-work of some patient penman, the fancies of an artist "all shaven and shorn". "Look two and two go the priests, then monks with cowls and sandals. And the penitents dressed in white shirts, a-holding the yellow candles." They are a curious collection, full of interest for scholar and antiquarian; food for the imagination and the artistic taste of anyone who examines them...
...McCormack, before making vocal advances to audiences in New York and Chicago, gave Detroit a taste of her quality. Here are some comments, taken at random from the Detroit press: "But she has not much of a voice "; "a woman of courage"; "nasal squeaks"; "sad, hopeful, handsome, ambitious, incompetent artist"; "program was mercifully brief"; "sincere worker in the field of art." Mme. Walska explains that she does not take Detroit critics seriously. Her Chicago debut has been indefinitely postponed...
Considering Dante as an artist and creator, Professor Grandaunt showed that the poet possessed the three factors which combine to make art--conception, selection, and expression--in the highest degree and in nice balance, Dante also offers in this "age of shallow self-expressiveness" a salutary example in "giving to us, by his skill and care in selection, as much by what he withholds as by what he tells...
...intended to carry further their consideration of the subject, to study Dante's life and times, to get the substance of his best works, and to do reading as much as possible in the original language, Professor Grandgent concluded, "From such study, derive the conception of a supreme artist, endowed with clearest vision, vivld appreciation of beauty wherever found, love of symmetry; a scholar of orderly mind and insatiable thirst for knowledge; a man of exceptional intensity of feeling; above all, a mighty champion and prophet of justice...
...Story telling, he said, "is a vital job, and the author is not a person who invents stories, but an artist, sensitive enough to feed the concepts of his mind and leave them into a form of beauty". He explained further that the novelist is bound by the tradition of his profession and by the knowledge of his technique. And this technique names from such a love of his material that he does not dare to hurt...