Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three years, while his money held out, he painted. Then came more of "the foul jobs, the indecent proceedings, the swallowing of indignities, the anguished cavalcades through Paris." Still he managed to put aside a little cash, collect another wife and take a third crack at art. By 1944, after a brief tour of duty in the French air force, Dubuffet was ready for his first one-man show. Already his paintings were dedicated to the proposition that the Western notion of beauty is a "meager and not very ingenious invention...
...speakers will include Athletic Director and last year's coach Thomas D. Bolles, new coach Harvey Love, 1952 captain Lou McCagg. Alden McIntyre, and Francis L. Higginson '00. Higginson is expected to report on the progress of the Friends of Harvard Rowing, an organization formed recently to collect money for the crew...
Guys's estimate of his work was overmodest. Since his death in a charity clinic in 1892, museums and private collectors have begun to collect his drawings. Last week Paris critics had compared him with Rembrandt and Goya, and labeled him "one of the most sumptuous draftsmen of the French school...
...this point in Grand Right and Left, complications start running wild. Gordon tried to collect Winston Churchill, but the old hero declined. ("Not," said Churchill, "for the present.") He did get three prime specimens: an English duke, a famous lady writer, and a flashy European diplomat. But all three had their flaws. The duke turned out to be a remarkably unducal fellow who had recently been working at a part-time job addressing envelopes. The lady writer proved to be an inconvenient wisecracker. And the diplomat brought his slinky, good-looking niece with him. Soon Gordon was neglecting his collection...
Love Story. In Fairfield, Calif., Rancher Ralph Fong explained to the sheriff why he had tried to hire two men to kill his wife so that he could collect her $10,000 life insurance: "I loved her so much I couldn't shoot her myself...