Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...folks, always notoriously superstitious. Their favorite is astrology, the pseudo-scientific 5,000-year-old Babylonian art of prediction by analyzing the effect of the planets. France's Jeanne Moreau, for instance, lets it be known that she has her astral reading done annually, because "as an artist and an Aquarius, I especially need reassuring." Comedian Dick Gregory carries something called Moon Sign Book and consults it regularly before making any major decision, on the theory that "all I believe in is Nature, and all of Nature is in the book." Actress Rosemary Harris says that she was overjoyed...
...instrument, calculates the appropriate rests so that a player can turn the page without getting tangled in his instrument, and writes in all the cues. Beyond that, he clarifies the symbols, catches wrong notes, adds missing flats and sharps. Says Aaron Copland: "In his own way, Arnstein is an artist. He makes you feel as if you have an extra pair of eyes looking for mistakes...
...years, Joyce lived at more than 200 residences scattered across the face of Europe-fleabags and fine hotels, hospitals and clinics, pensions and borrowed apartments, students' rooms and Martello towers. In these settings, Joyce wrote his books, from the epiphanies represented by Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man to the full achievements of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. In addition, Joyce launched on the world a flood of letters. The first batch, edited by Stuart Gilbert, was published nearly a decade ago (TIME, June 3, 1957). Since then, many more have been found: these...
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John Simon, drama critic for the Hudson Review, disagreed, insisting that "the function of a critic is to be a teacher and an artist...