Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Elizabeth Bishop, L.H.D., poet. Erik Erikson, LL.D., psychoanalyst. Joan S. Erikson, LL.D., author, educator, artist, and wife of Erik Erikson. Paul A. Freund, LL.D., scholar on the Supreme Court. Bayard Rustin, LL.D., civil rights and labor leader...
Josef Albers, D.F.A., artist. Anni Albers, D.F.A., textile designer. In this day of liberated women, Anni Albers' distinguished career gives quiet testimony to the power of gentle genius, the ability of a woman to live with a man of equal genius without withdrawing into his shadow...
...flapping from its crenelations, inside the box called Battle of Little Jack's Creek, 1970-is to convince you of the utter reality, the solid presence, of a completely surreal world, pinned and glued at all its joints and present in all its contradictions. He is a folkish artist (the varnished pine boards he uses, and the rigor of their joinery, are virtually illustrations of the American grain). From his constructions emanates a wild, laconic humor that is the obverse of puritan sensibility. But the environment that Westermann's images suggest has also to do with rootlessness: carnival...
...group complained that the figures were "obviously" white; another claimed they were "obviously" black. The truth, says Artist Linda Sagan (Carl's wife), is that she intended to show the man as Negro and the woman as Oriental, thus portraying diverse racial characteristics...
After coaching his student for three years, Voice Teacher Frederick Wilkerson took a deep breath and gave her his verdict: as a classical artist, she would make a good pop performer. Many young singers would have been demolished. Not Roberta Flack. Always fascinated with pop music, she took the advice, began lightening and loosening her Puccini-style soprano, soon was singing and playing piano for $20 a night at Mr. Henry's, a jazz joint in the Capitol Hill district of Washington, D.C. Her toughest adjustment was to the audiences, who were literally a far cry from politely attentive...