Word: carr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...solid citizens of Victoria, B.C., Emily Carr was a painful puzzle. Born into a conservative Victoria family (in 1871) she was dreamy and snappish from the start...
When Emily Carr's money ran out, she returned to teach art in Victoria. But no one wanted to learn from her; it was generally agreed that the home town girl had not made good and that her paintings were simply terrible. To support herself, she opened a boarding house, raised puppies and made pottery and hooked rugs for sale on the side...
Soon the defiantly avant-garde Emily Carr of youth was transformed into a dumpy, frumpy, acidulous old maid. She would plod the staid streets of Victoria with a monkey on her shoulder and a mangy sheep dog at her heels, pushing a baby carriage full of groceries, while neighbors sneered, smirked, winced, howled or froze with disdain...
...Indians, in their fishing villages north of Victoria, knew an entirely different woman. They called Emily Carr "The Laughing One." Whenever she could get away from Victoria she appeared among them to paint pictures of their harsh hushed land and works. "It must be understood, she wrote in old age, "that my collection of Indian pictures was not done in a comfortable studio. You have got to go out and wrestle with the elements, with all your senses alert . . . You have got to hold your nose against the smell of rotten fish, and you've got to have...
...replace Carr, Chairman McCarthy picked sleek, swarthy James Juliana, 32, who took the blame during the hearings for the cropped photo of Private Dave Schine and Army Secretary Bob Stevens...