Word: brush
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the real thing. One we met said, 'Sometimes you run into off-beat ideas from some of these ministers who think that the soul leaves the body and the body is just like a rind that can be thrown away after death.' His reaction to this brush with neo-Platonism was to assert that clergymen like that 'just want to kill sentiment,' an interesting possibility...
Charley O'Brien, the man in charge, is short and brush-haired, and holds his cigarette in a clenched fist. He had not bothered to take off his trench-coat. "Ward's a shoo-in," he stated, "because Kennedy's gonna win Massachusetts by 500,000 votes for sure." He spread out a Boston Globe on one of the six empty tables in the headquarters. "Look at that--the Herald, the Globe, and the Traveler have all gone back on their accusation that Ward's name is printed heavier on the ballot...
...when they turned up at the Russian border on July 26. Mark I. Kaminsky, 28, of Edwardsburg, Mich, and Harvey Bennett. 26. of Bath. Me. had hired a Russian-made Volga sedan in Helsinki, and their papers stated that they planned a 30-day motor trip through Russia to brush up on their Russian. Kaminsky and Bennett had met in the Air Force in 1953; both took Russian in college. Kaminsky had landed a job as an instructor at Purdue this fall, and Bennett, fresh out of U.C.L.A., was still looking...
...creatures who seemed on perpetual holiday. Yet he was the first U.S. artist to paint with broken colors, helped organize New York's 1913 Armory Show, which clamorously launched "modern art" in the U.S. His big trouble since has been that his touch was so light and his brush so gay that not everyone has been able to see that he was a rebel...
...dominated turn-of-the-century U.S. art. Outraged by his fantasy, critics inveighed against Prendergast's paintings as "whirling arabesques that tax the eye." "unadulterated slop," and "the product of much cider drunk at Saint-Malo." If Prendergast felt the sting, he left no record of it. His brush became still looser, his rhythms more intricate, his outlines so subtle that his paintings almost began to look as if they had been woven. But for all their technical innovations, his works con tinued to reflect a childlike world eternally at play...