Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said Arpad's artist, Bill Pause: "Well I'll be damned...
...into the lives of millions. Last week news reached the U.S. that Peter Rabbit's creator was dead. The end had come three days before Christmas to 77-year-old Mrs. William Heelis ("Beatrix Potter"), wife of a British solicitor, mistress of Hill Top Farm, Sawrey, Westmorland, England, artist and author of some of the best-known children's books ever published...
...squirming, unposed action bespeaks an eye that never let go of much (an asset unmistakable in a later-year impression of a London crowd, which echoed the same theme of hellishly snarled humanity). In the early schoolroom satire there is also more than a suggestion of how little the artist was ever able to let go of his mother. When she died in 1881, Dore wrote to a friend: "I am without force . . . overpowered by ... fear of the future." The future was only two years...
Faced with loss of suspense to a long-developing climax, Artist Caniff could do nothing about what was, in a sense, an involuntary copyright trespass. Said he: "My mistake. I thought the [New Yorker] story was to run a couple of weeks later than it did, and approved it. Funny thing-a lot of 'Terry' fans had already guessed 'Midi' was going to turn out to be 'Sanjak,' a woman character I haven't used for about four years...
...analysis is pure hogwash - the sort of thing that city fellers like Steinbeck and McWilliams would naturally fall for. But, they insist, to stay on the land and make a living from it, the small farmer must be come a highly proficient scientist as well as something of an artist. He must master the tricks of contour plowing and strip cropping. He must eschew the temptation to bet everything on a single cash crop, for that way, in years of overproduction, lies bankruptcy...