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Word: artistes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...irony pervade the film, giving it a refreshing tartness that most war movies lack. Boulle has packed into his screenplay all the elements a good war movie ought to have: torture, escape, death, destruction, heroism, sacrifice, and so forth. But everything is seen freshly, with the eye of an artist instead of a hack...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: The Bridge on the River Kwai | 1/9/1958 | See Source »

Adams House has designated part of the money from its Ford Foundation grant to sponsor an art contest, John B. Fox '59, chairman of the House Art Committee, said yesterday. The House has already set aside some of its Ford funds for art classes with a professional artist. Money from the University will be used to remodel a studio in the House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams House to Sponsor Art Competition, Art Lessons, With Ford Foundation Funds | 1/8/1958 | See Source »

Morton Sacks, a Boston artist, has been giving weekly art instruction to interested House members...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams House to Sponsor Art Competition, Art Lessons, With Ford Foundation Funds | 1/8/1958 | See Source »

...years ago, i.e. The Cambridge Review spent a lot of time and pages thinking about the problems of artistic creation and criticized the Advocate for failing to concern itself with such matters. While the latest is sue (December) of the Advocate gives no indication that the magazine itself will ever accept the challenge, it does show clearly that some of the writers it publishes have. One of its poems, "Report of the Artist's Progress to his Doctor" by A. E. Keir Nash is specificaly concerned with the artist and another, "The Exhortation to an Audience, to be Still...

Author: By John H. Fincher, | Title: The Advocate | 1/7/1958 | See Source »

...synthesis of such a diversity of subjective and objective elements, however, is only partially successful. The rhythm and consistently gaunt imagery give the poem a great amount of tonal unity, but there is little development toward the identity of the artist with his environment that the last stanza professes him to have achieved. Granted the painter may have felt this identity, but it is still up to the poem to help the reader partake of the process. But it's too static and remains as a whole nebulous and gray. Despite its other virtues, there is little light and color...

Author: By John H. Fincher, | Title: The Advocate | 1/7/1958 | See Source »

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