Word: barres
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pablo Picasso is this sort of irritating exception. In a half-century of painting he has ranged from classic perfection to near chaos, without once mislaying the sureness in execution and the vitality which are his only consistent characteristics. That half-century was summed up by scholarly Alfred H. Barr Jr., research director of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, in a comprehensively illustrated monograph out last week (Picasso, 50 Years of His Art; $6). Its 330 pictures were the work of a restless giant in a restless era, who constantly invented new worlds to conquer, then tired...
...paintings of Toulouse-Lautrec, whom he admired enormously, "but all the same," Picasso decided, "I paint better than Lautrec." He set out to prove it and for three years painted starved, laundresses, absinthe drinkers and grave, bearded beachcombers in blue. Nowadays they seem a bit stagy and sentimental; Barr suggests that they reflect Picasso's "room without a lamp, his meals of rotten sausages, even his burning a pile of his own drawings to keep warm...
Best Friend. In Los Angeles, Judge Carl A. Stutsman granted Shirley Barr a divorce, denied James M. Barr's request for regular visits...
...Great Books set will include introductory essays by Hutchins, Mortimer Adler, Carl Van Doren, Stringfellow Barr, plus a cross-index of the world's great ideas and idea-men. An entire building on the Chicago campus is filled with ripe scholars and raw materials for this index. Publication date: 1948. For the first few years Britannica expects an annual sale of 5,000 sets...
...column called Words to Live By appears each week in This Week. Authors, philosophers, statesmen, educators and plain citizens choose and comment on quotations, famous or obscure, as a steering gear for readers in "these rudderless days." For No. 22 in the series, Stringfellow ("Winkie") Barr, president of St. John's College, last week plucked a 2,000-year-old thought from Aristotle: "All men desire by nature to know." Wrote Barr...