Word: brush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Artist Chapin is no repeater of formulas. In 1929 he left his log cabin and went back to Manhattan. His brush has since touched many another phase of U. S. life-touts, lobster fishermen, subways, baseball players, blues singers, lime kilns, Utah strawstacks. Sometimes his paintings are crisp and tight, sometimes loose and fluid. They are always vital. At 53, an art teacher one day a week at the Pennsylvania Academy, James Chapin is still undogmatic. "We are all students together," says he. "I'm trying to learn how to paint...
...surrounded by still cameras, and beckon to the Poon boys to come out and learn some oomph. This is rank injustice to the rest of the college. Since apparently only she holds the key to money-making success, since most Harvard alumni are reputedly oomphless share croppers and Fuller-brush men, Miss Sheridan is needed at college to raise a new generation of oomphy grads...
...last 20 years, Du Pont has been easing out of the war business, in 1936 stopped promoting munitions sales abroad altogether. Nowadays it has a less lethal line-and the Du Pont name is best known for stuffs like Duco, Rayon, Zerone, nylon (for fish line, brush bristles, silky hose), plastics, Cellophane. Last year vast E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., chemicals empire (total assets: $857,618,123), had $299,000,000 in sales. This included only a 1% increase in products for military...
...Copernican theory that the earth is a planet and moves round the sun did not attract the serious concern of the Inquisition until it began to look as if Galileo was proving it. His first brush with the Holy Office resulted in nothing more than an eloquent, friendly warning from the great theologist, Cardinal Bellarmin. It is on this occasion that Harsanyi has him make (gaily) his famous-probably apocryphal -remark: "Eppur si muove" ("Nevertheless it moves"). The heat was not really turned on until Galileo was 69, when Pope Urban VIII in a personal pet had the sick...
...woman with bureau drawers for breasts, a massive Spanish fountain by Etcher Sir Muirhead Bone, an opium-ridden fantasy of Painter-Poet Jean Cocteau, a woman feeding hens, by Iowa's Grant Wood. Even the shading of characteristic artists' tools was faithfully reproduced, from the wavy Japanese brush strokes of Isamu Noguchi's cat to the sculptural modeling of a Maillol nude...