Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tumors subsided, they gained weight, some went back to work. Nitrogen mustard sometimes worked after X rays had become ineffective. Best results were against incurable Hodgkin's disease, a cancer of the lymph nodes. Although Hodgkin's is almost invariably fatal, one Chicago patient, a young commercial artist, has been kept in good working health for 33 months by periodic mustard treatments. Nitrogen mustard, the doctors warned, is not a cancer cure. But it i) relieves some patients' suffering for months at a time, 2) has encouraged researchers to think that they may be on the right...
...Rilke that Rodin had achieved greatness through the "free play" of his "quick and trained hand." The drawings looked free as the wind-and actually were just as bound as the wind is by nature. Rodin drew just what he saw. "After all," remarked the old man once, "the artist has only to trust his eyes...
...Neill. The mass interview he gave the press, early last month, and his more intimate conversation after the conference, left an impression of the man which, in many respects, was much more affecting and revealing than the play with which he broke his long silence as an artist...
...time hero & heroine begin to wriggle out of the underworld's clutches, the unwinding plot is too glib and fast to follow. So are the sociological overtones of the young couple's last-reel decision to starve in an artist's garret rather than gorge in a butler's pantry...
Born a generation after Eliot and Ransom, and the youngest member of the "Fugitive" group whose nucleus was Vanderbilt University, Warren has been profoundly influenced by the two older men, and through them, by the English metaphysicals. But there is another strain in Warren's experience as an artist, a strain which stems from his acute consciousness of his birth place, the South. In speaking of Warren's awareness of the land in which he grew up, Ransom has remarked that the South is a land where "The inhabitants are sensitively aware of the country in which they live, acknowledging...