Word: artisticisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Specialists' Books. Art books, though generally considered all-purpose gifts, are more properly put into the specialist classification. Merely because a person has been heard to praise Van Gogh is no reason to give him an expensive work on Tunisian mosaics (the New York Graphic Society puts out an...
Estinguishable from the scientific and humane cultures, Jones said, are the religious, the middle-brow (more accurately known as Philistine), the administrative power-elite, and the artistic and intellectual. These cultures complicate the American picture so much as to make Snow's picture of the great divide inapplicable.
On the podium, all his movements are clipped and economical. Every muscle is under rigid control. But the moment the music stops, Conductor Igor Markevitch cuts loose. For quick relief from artistic discipline, he unlimbers his tongue. Occasionally his cutting comments have helped cost him a job. "Paris musicians," he...
Although he has achieved distinction as a poet, Reid's intimate knowledge and interpretation of Spain have set him apart as a correspondent with few equals. During the six years he has lived in Spain (first in Madrid, then in Barcelona) the amplitude of his friendship with political, intellectual, and...
The twelve-member Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee turned down six suggestions from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. The committee had no esthetic objection to a stamp that would show a green wreath hanging from a white suburban door, but the block of white would foul up every color-sensitized...