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...were also a few Mexican artists of ability who had never paid much attention to politics. Two of these last week had one-man shows in Manhattan. They were 48-year-old Carlos Merida, who painted cactus and Aztec idols before Rivera did and 32-year-old Expatriate Federico Cantú, who dwells in Greenwich Village...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mexicans Without Politics | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

...painted his portrait. His manners were preferred to those of Mr. Philip Stanhope (the bastard boy on whom Chesterfield lavished his famed letters of advice on how to behave: "Remember the Graces, the Graces, the Graces"). Only ungracious, hardheaded Sam Johnson growled to Boswell: "Don't cant about in defense of savages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Noble Savage | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

Called "Teacher" by her onetime pupils, Sculptor Putnam aimed to enlighten the layman and at the same time to provide a technical guide for students, especially girls, who seldom get a chance at apprenticeship in a sculptor's studio. By a happy omission of professional cant and a handsome use of good drawings and photographs, she puts across pleasantly much that a manual would desiccate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Brenda's Book | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...Cant's Send Cards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tutoring School Agent Offered $25 to Official of University for Class Listings | 4/22/1939 | See Source »

...them cant about decorum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 16, 1939 | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

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