Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What is in a name? Everything, it would appear, when TIME [Nov. 24] refers to the Boyman's Museum, Rotterdam, and other purchasers of Van Meegeren's pictures, as suckers, owing to their acquisitions having proved the work of a contemporary artist, instead of genuine Vermeers. Has their merit wilted thereby? Is the Christ at Emmaus any less beautiful, because the authorship is changed...
...think marriage was made for an artist or an artist for marriage," declared Hit Playwright Tennessee Williams (A Streetcar Named Desire), himself a bachelor. "He has to keep moving around. . . . There's something static about marriage...
...Moscow, famed Cineproducer Sergei Eisenstein took to the short waves to charge Hollywood with preaching "hatred of humanity and the Soviet Union, that great beacon of peace." Soliloquized Eisenstein reproachfully: "Can one remain an artist and not be impelled to arrest the hand which is sowing death...
McCurdy, the set-shot artist the Crimson has missed so badly, was declared eligible on a 4 to 3 count, with Cornell casting the deciding ballot. "He's just as good as Saul Mariaschin," said a pleased Bill Barclay recently...
Willa Gather died, and readers recognized the passing of a true artist. Theodore Dreiser's final novel provided reminiscent readers with more of the honest pulp into which that slow, bewildered mill of meditation converted the tough timber of life. Booth Tarkington's last unfinished story faintly echoed the springtime tones that he caught from young middle-class voices in another...