Word: blunts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three Jesuit editors to leave the staff of De Nieuwe Linie because he could not agree with the magazine's editorial views. Other journals-Catholic, Protestant and secular-hurried to the defense of De Nieuwe Linie, and a number of Dutch Jesuits have openly protested Father Janssens' blunt handling of the case. Two of the Jesuits have ignored the order, still show up for work at the magazine every...
...Hague, Marcel Breuer built a blunt, lantern-windowed structure as stolid as a Dutch door. In Athens, Walter Gropius used the same Pentelic marble that forms the Parthenon. Edward Durell Stone's grillwork adorns New Delhi like a Hindu temple. In Baghdad, José Luis Sert put up a tentlike structure fit for a caliph and cooled by channels of river water. Saarinen warmed his Oslo embassy with teak screens; Yamasaki lightened his Kobe consulate with airy Japanese panels. The openings of U.S. embassies have come to be as eagerly anticipated as big Broadway first nights. This month...
Owen's poems seemed to speak for all the war's suffering and brought English poetry down to earth with blunt, homely words. Auden, Spender, T. S. Eliot and a whole generation of English poets acknowledged their debt to Owen. Now Owen's poems have been published in the most complete edition to date. Editor Lewis has added several un published poems that were written in Owen's youth and were in his brother's possession; in addition many other poems have been corrected...
GREGORIO PRESTOPINO-Nordness, 831 Madison Ave. at 69th. As a painter, Prestopino carries no excess baggage: he carves clean chunks of landscape from pastry-rich impasto, props blunt black boulders and fallen trees around like sentries, guides the eye to figures of feverish hue-orange, red, pink, green-wading in lily ponds and squatting in lakes. Recent oils. Through...
...Torso, the artist paraphrases anatomy down to a mere presence, where its force is greater than in a slickly limned nude. In The Fountain, he portrays humid decay draping blunt forms that seem relics of a distant past. There is always agony in Sutherland's garden-or at least, as his biographer, Douglas Cooper, dryly admits, "little evidence ofgaiety...