Word: calming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usual abstract-expressionist slatherings. Rome's Domenico Gnoli, an Old World newcomer of 26. exhibited a sheaf of big, clear-cut, conservative drawings at the Bianchini Gallery, found himself famed and in the money. What attracted critics and buyers alike was Gnoli's obvious mastery, modesty and calm. Though not the greatest virtues possible to art, these qualities are currently rare-and as delightful as cold water after a binge...
While Little Rock stirred, the man who tried to prevent the collapse of the city's schools was elsewhere. In 1955 Little Rock so respected its superintendent of schools and his calm desegregation plan that it named him Man of the Year. Last winter big (6 ft. 3 in., 250 Ibs.), outspoken Virgil Blossom, 52, was forced to leave town. Out of work for nearly six months (and still owed nearly $7,700 by Little Rock), Dr. Blossom has a new job: in July he will take over the semi-integrated schools of San Antonio, which sought him mainly...
...restore calm, Lleras canceled the increase. To keep the calm, he will have to pull another miracle of statesmanship -a miracle that will build new industries to put Colombia's hungry manpower, currently growing at the rate of 70,000 a year, to work...
...anecdotal reveries of Novelist Irwin (The Young Lions) Shaw with five signed lithographs by fast-rising U.S. Abstractionist-in-Paris John Levee, 35. The text accompanying Levee's Images of European Summer (see color) draws on Shaw's own expatriate ramblings, summons up visions of "the sea calm, the sun hot. Everybody lazy and on holiday." Offshore a party on an aircraft carrier makes "the final perfect touch against the violet horizon." Sales to date: eight (which included a signed gouache) at $250; 60 of the regular edition (limited to 140 copies...
...freshman crew has not raced since it lost to Cornell two weeks ago. Like all freshman crews it handles itself better in calm water than rough but Coolidge thinks it has improved a great deal and is capable of rowing well under any conditions...