Word: controversialist
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Robert Henri was not an elegant, sensational painter like the late John Singer Sargent, nor a trenchant controversialist like the late Joseph Pennell. Insurgent, he did not crusade. He taught instead. Born in Cincinnati of French-English-Irish descent, he studied at the Pennsylvania and Julien (Paris) Academies, at the Paris Beaux-Arts. French precision and orthodoxy never made him feel com fortable. Strolling the corridors of the Louvre, he revered Rembrandt, Velasquez, Hals, but was long unable to evolve con victions of his own. Like most fine artists, he remained, even after success, a student of the masters...
Died. Dr. Charles Alfred Lee Reed, 72, famed gynecologist, anti-prohibitionist, controversialist, onetime president of the American Medical Association; of heart disease; in Gloucester, Mass...
...Hoover is not simply a long suffering engineer and scientist. He has unexpected abilities as a controversialist...
...Hoover's unexpected abilities as a controversialist...