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Though the Piccirillis usually work together as "stone-masters," Attilio stands head and shoulders above his brothers as an individual artist. A classical conformist, he is a master of the human form. His figures have an impressive, if somewhat posed, nobility, and they are simply conceived and carried out. He designed Manhattan's imposing Maine Monument at Columbus Circle, its Firemen's Memorial on Riverside Drive, notable for its expressive woman & child group. One of his best works is the pediment on the Frick house in Manhattan, a poetic and satisfying solution of the problem of putting...
...Vinci's "Last Supper," but not Leonardo's "Mona Lisa," which is of course so popular a selection that it is both proper and fair for its place to be taken by a nude like Titian's "Danae," which is often omitted out of deference to "the non-Conformist conscience," as Max Beerbohm calls it "which does make cowards...
Nearing in a non-conformist and an individualist, yet an individualist who believes in collectivism and collective economy. He has been active in movements for women's rights, higher wage rates, and the prevention of child labor...
...college, put her in high school there. But to his feverishly jealous eyes she continued to show more interest in men than in books. In an effort to make himself more presentable, Vridar joined a fraternity, went out for football, but he could not make himself a conformist. In the summer he and Xeloa hired themselves out on a ranch. In a way it was a relief to Vridar when he was drafted into the Army, a disappointment when the Armistice came before he was sent overseas. The War over, he got a job in a garage, slipped-gradually into...
Perhaps a good way to illustrate these points is by summing up the essential features of the average Yale graduate. The Yale man is a sociable person, willing to "drink one up with the boys:" he is a conformist, with a superficial knowledge of cultural attainments, but with no real interest in them. His ideal of success can be expressed directly by his salary and by the number of committees of which he is a member. These are, of course, generalizations honored almost as much in the breach as in the observance, but as far as possible they...