Word: barres
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Also on the Nominating Committee, all undergraduates of the Class of '47, are Richard A. Green, James J. Sullivan, E. Barr Peterson, Philip M. Stern, Victor J. Critchlow, and Stephen D. Becker. Thomas L. P. O'Donell and Roswell B. Perkins, both first-year Law students, were appointed as advisors to the Committee...
...himself, flew at an unlikely place: the stubby mast of a Nazi submarine. The U-2513 was a U.S. prize from the surrendered German Navy, under study because of its revolutionary Schnorkel breathing device (TIME, Feb. 19, 1945). Now, with an all-American crew commanded by Lieut. Commander James Barr Casler, the U-boat was at Key West...
...while Picasso tried pink. His blue period "gave way to the more natural style and melancholy sweetness of a long series of circus people." His Boy Leading a Horse (see cut) which even a know-nothing in art could see was first rate, has, says Barr, "an unpretentious, natural nobility of order and gesture which makes the official guardians of the 'Greek' tradition such as Ingres and Puvis de Chavannes seem vulgar or pallid...
Picasso went through one six-month stretch when the only picture he did was a rag cut by a piece of string; and through another period when he tried his restless hand at poetry. Currently he calls himself a Communist, but his art would please no commissar. Author Barr more correctly calls Picasso an "intransigent" individualist...
Picasso is at work on a huge canvas which will never fit anyone's idea of interior decoration. Entitled The Charnel-House, it is still in the drawing stage (see cut). Says Barr: "Its figures are facts-the famished, waxen cadavers of Buchenwald, Dachau and Belsen. The fury and shrieking violence which made the agonies of Guernica tolerable are here reduced to silence. For the man, the woman and the child this picture is a Pieta without grief, an entombment without mourners, a requiem without pomp...