Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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America needs a king to do this sort of thing. A king, even a little mouselike man like King George, is not only a decorative but a useful piece of furniture. His personal inconsequence is relieved by gold braid, and medals; he is an artist at laying cornerstones and opening exhibitions, leaving the Prime Minister to govern. He does not have to reward Babbits with the use of the Marines; he can make them peers with opposition from none but the House of Lords--a simpler and cheaper process. And Americans are great royalty lovers. They will greet a queen...
...York State Nautical School and commanded the U. S. S. Newport during the War. In 1924, he turned altogether to writing, having already published two sea stories and a textbook. P. A. L., his first novel, was the robustious biography of a U. S. promoter and wildcat bunco artist, "P. A. L. Tangerman." Last autumn he published Vignettes of the Sea, much like William McFee's off-duty ruminations. The polyglot relations in East Side, West Side reflect his own. A deep-chested, straw-haired German, he married, in 1912, Maud Conroy of Queenstown, Ireland...
...highest." They saw the muscular, furious, aging Christ striding over the world more like a scourge than a savior-the figure of Christ that had caused so much ferment in Sculptor Kalish's native Cleveland. As everywhere, there were plenty of people to quarrel with the artist's anatomical exaggerations and inaccuracies; his tendency to pose a character rather than compose a type. But the majority marveled at his obvious sincerity and unusual power. Detroit, hive of industry, saw its own image and was content...
...romanticism in European music, of solo piano concerts, of pianists who exploit brilliant personalities for their art's sake, begins with the father-in-law and in-opera of Richard Wagner, the inventor of the symphonic poem, the demon-angel of European music for 60 years, Franz Liszt,* artist, lover, Franciscan monk...
...result of this principle of fine arts is that the extraordinary truth of representation which is to be seen in the work of such an artist as Howard Giles is not the slavish result of realistic limitation, but rather the truth of the imagination. The scope of the work is indeed limited to the directions and angles of a single right triangle, since the reciprocals to the diagonals are at right angles to them. Far from limiting the possibilities of the work, this method adds immeasurably to the possibilities of design. A strict symmetry in space relations...