Word: barre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...R.C.S.S. has put up lists in all Radcliffe dorms, on which prospective couple-sitters can sign up. Grad students can leave their orders with Martin L. Barr 2L, the chairman of the new group, who lives in Shaw 207a...
...have struck a blow for the independence of the graduate student," Barr said last night. "Our only worry is that the couple-sitters will become too attached to their work...
Dribble That Adventure! The remainder of the show was selected by the Museum of Modern Art's Alfred H. Barr Jr., whose taste differs sharply from Frankfurter's. It is not the expressionists, Barr maintains, but the abstractionists who have the ball. Among Barr's choices were paintings by Jackson Pollock, who dribbles paint onto his canvases from above to create what Barr calls "an energetic adventure for the eyes," Willem de Kooning, who gets equally helter-skelter results with a brush, and Arshile Gorky...
...Barr and Frankfurter had picked examples of the latest U.S. art fashions to export to Venice. Old John Marin, who sniffs at both abstractionism and expressionism, was the one painter in the U.S. pavilion whose reputation would clearly survive fashion...
...James Barr Ames '68, a former Dean of the Law School and a compiler of Casebooks...