Word: braves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Britain's postwar generation of Angry Young Men lash themselves into a low-powered tantrum over the grubby, provincial world they have inherited in the Brave New World of socialism, a group of young realist painters, known as the "Kitchen-Sinkers," celebrate with gusto the seamy world of cluttered kitchen tables precisely because it is "common to everyone." It is a world in which the plumber is hero, being both "a craftsman and a necessity." A good part of the Kitchen-Sink work looks as if a plumber could have painted it, including some still lifes that focus...
This is the true tale of how one brave man (Henry Fordyce, Jr.*) fought a great university (this one) to a standstill...
...nations did not produce 46 styles. In the brave new world of widely circulated reproductions, painters and sculptors are busier keeping abreast of trends than developing distinctive characteristics of their own. Overwhelmingly, the trend was abstract expressionist, in both painting and sculpture. Confronted by much that was grandiose, more that was trivial, the jury of 17 experts, predominantly directors of their own national museums, had to give up the search for jewels, settle on their choice among the semiprecious offerings available...
...show. His accomplishments are surely more significant than those of Wallace K. Harrison, who exhibits buildings for Alcoa that seem to have been designed for the sole purpose of discovering uglier and uglier ways of using aluminum. If Harrison's experiments turned out to be disastrous failures, those brave new forms at Ronchamp and Bear Run resulted in magnificent accomplishments. It is achievements such as these which have given our century the most exciting buildings since the Renaissance...
Only the very good and the very brave get up at nine. And only they would take Slavic Aab (Sever 20), two terms of Russian somehow jammed into one. Other-directed linguists can attend Comp Lit 157 (Sever 8), where Professor Hatfield examines German Drama from Gleist to the Expressionists in the European context. The course is restricted to those who read German, but who doesn...