Word: artists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Artist Low got that way politically is not hard to explain. He recalls that he became "socially conscious" at 19, when he went from deeply socialistic New Zealand to deeply laborite Australia. But for all his savage conviction, he is still a sly humorist. The words he puts in the mouth of his most famous cartoon creation, globular, mustached Colonel Blimp, archtype of the Tory diehard, are an acid parody of Conservative thought. Sample: "Come, come, let's be fair to Franco...
...Charles Wiltschek, a crippled artist, persuaded Evelyn ("Evie") Robert-Washington Times-Herald columnist and wife of Lawrence ("Chip") Robert Jr., secretary of the Democratic National Committee-to let him paint her portrait from a photograph, then sued her for $750 when she rejected it as outrageous. Caught in the toils of the law, she last week settled out of court, then treated her portrait as she thought it deserved: kicked a hole through the face...
...added to it an ability to paint. His father idolized him, earmarked him for fame, then spoiled him and his chances. The darling of the family, Branwell enjoyed his tantrums unchecked; he grew to be an irresolute exhibitionist. When he began to realize that he was only a frustrated artist, he took the byroad to ruin via liquor and laudanum, while his helpless family stood by and watched...
...simple device of magnification, Grosser has lately made strawberries and peppers not merely more edible but more visual, has shocked even jaded critics into recognizing the richness, delicacy and care of his painting. As untidy in his life as he is tidy in his painting, stocky, mocking, hard-working Artist Grosser last week fidgeted, tore up match boxes, explained his preference of subject matter with classic concision: "Humans wiggle; vegetables just...
...tells of a medical genius who becomes equally famed as a best-selling satirist. When his young wife, a beautiful Communist, is killed in an accident, the doctor retires snarling to a cottage, makes friends with a philosopher-cop, gets mixed up in the strange suicide of an egomaniac artist, who personifies nihilism, Fascism, middle-class decline, spiritual corruption. Next the doctor founds a "lay order for the conservation of liberalism and decency." Also involved are his friend the cop, an undertaker, a journalist, the Spanish Civil War, a miscellaneous assortment of other People and events-Author Hyams evidently being...