Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cannot write it"), he married at 43, now has two boys and two girls, youngest five months. Says Artur: "Boys are inclined to smile tolerantly and say 'Papa is a fine fellow-but a little mad.' But daughters-they understand-and adore! They know instinctively that an artist remains something of a child to the end of his days...
Pain & Revolt. No classical artist demands and so often gets Rubinstein's high minimum guarantee ($3,500 a concert), but he is a good investment. At one concert in Lincoln, Neb. last year, Rubinstein earned $5,400 as his share of the box-office receipts. His Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 was Victor's 1946 best-selling classical album. The $85,000 he collected for three days' piano playing for the movie I've Always Loved You is still a Hollywood record...
Like his late, great grandfather, Artist Lucian Freud is suspicious of reticence. Grandfather Sigmund thought it frequently concealed all manner of ugly things; grandson Lucian, like Joan Miro (see above), thinks it inhibits...
...became dean of the University of Iowa's graduate school, which outraged academic conservatives by awarding graduate degrees for creative work (novels, symphonies, paintings) as well as for learned theses. A believer in "corridor education" and plenty of relaxation, Stoddard dragged students and faculty, including Artist Wood, off to weekend house parties...
...presumably this profit motive that makes Artist Caldwell write fiction that is never above the intelligence-level of the most stunted book buyer. There Was a Time is packed to the boards with the kind of hatred of people and of the world that is often felt by the most normal man. But it is always balanced by Author Caldwell's cautious and frequent lip service to such equally human aspirations as love of humanity, tolerance and faith...