Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have a book called Art and Artists of All Nations. In this is a copy of A Secret by O. Goldman, a German artist. I am sure Knight did a very poor copy...
...Said Capp: "If anything is public property, it's the U.S. Senate. We elect 'em, and we pay 'em. Anyway, the whole sequence is just a cleaned up version of the Hughes investigation, during which the U.S. Senate was a more ludicrous, comical spectacle than any artist would dare draw...
...tiny but accurate reproduction, which has taken some 15 men and women nearly eight years to build, will have a background painted by Henry Brooks '22, Concord Artist...
...Risk of Dyspepsia. Reading, says Essayist Jackson, is an art. The real reader is a collaborating artist in the production of literature. "The writer expresses himself in a book, the reader through a book. Reading at its most intense becomes writing by proxy. When Schopenhauer said that reading was merely thinking with other people's brains, he was right. Reading is even further in that direction. IHs becoming someone else for the time being . . . and when we read we do not so much enter into the souls of others; we let them enter into us. We become Shakespeare...
...unusual for a writer to work in the New Yorker offices for several years without once meeting his editor. The elevator men have strict instructions not to greet him by name, lest he be accosted by some tactless writer or artist in the same car. ... He has relatively few friends and a number of enemies of whom he is, on the whole, rather proud. 'A journalist can't afford to have friends,' he is fond of saying...