Word: blandings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bland, boyish and 42, Bacon lives in London, vacations in Riviera gambling halls. Among his pet subjects in the past were visceral creatures squatting on table tops, elephants in the veldt, misty male nudes and bloody-fanged dogs, all glazed with horror. Critical reaction to Bacon's art has been a rather alarmed "Splendid!" Wrote London Critic Eric Newton: "Mr. Bacon contrives to be both unforgettable and repellent . . . [This] requires genius -an unhappy, desperate kind of genius...
Seminarian Stuart McLean of Yale Divinity School, who with Ed Bland of Princeton Theological Seminary worked in a steel plant, concluded that most of the men he met were far from understanding even such key words as "sin," "grace" and "redemption"-though he heard ministers glibly using the words to them as if they...
...Alexander Jackson was one of a band of seven nature painters who far surpassed New York's bland "Hudson River School." To picture the raw splendor of Canada's glaciers, frozen lakes and jack-pine forests, they developed a rough & ready brand of French Impressionism, with broader strokes and darker colors. In the 1920s Canadian critics inclined to scoff at the group; now that its efforts are history, it is becoming more and more revered...
...Congress, was fighting for local rights against the anti-conservative growth of central power. John C. Calhoun, quenching his own burning ambition, was busy on his unpopular formulation of minority rights against "the tyranny of majorities." Nathaniel Hawthorne was throwing his almost obsessive consciousness of sin into the bland and smiling face of the growing optimism...
Party-Throwing Elsa Maxwell, arriving in Europe for another summer's social whirl, described "the most wonderful present your reporter ever received." Manhattan Toy Manufacturer Lee Bland, "a dreamboat" so far as Elsa is concerned, had sent her a letter: "This will entitle Elsa Maxwell to have all the balloons and everything else my factories make, whenever she desires...