Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...resolved itself into nine paintings of Russian village life in Unoccupied France (painted after the Nazi invasion); three scenes of Russian village life in Connecticut (painted since Chagall's arrival in the U.S. last year); one scene of Russian village life in Russia; and one study of a cow in a high state of discoloration, the same animal Chagall painted 30 years ago from something he thought he saw in Paris. Remarkable for Chagall was the sensitive draughtsmanship of a new Descent from the Cross...
Painted during one of Europe's most war-torn centuries (the 17th), these 70 old Dutch masterpieces are as placid as a cow pasture. They depict not only the quiet surroundings but the quiet minds of sober, thrifty Dutch burghers: well-fed merchants of Amsterdam and Haarlem and their complacent, buxom wives, peaceful seascapes, fertile landscapes, plethoric fishmarkets, tables loaded with fruit and flowers. What makes them great art is no transcendental or heroic message but the unequaled quality of their honest, painstaking craftsmanship...
...start with, anyone who calls the elm-shaded area where the University lives and moves and has its being a "campus" is likely to be shunned by the knowing ones from that point forward. Because it was once a cow pasture, it is now and forever shall be known as the "Yard." Through the rooms in the Halls (not dorms, please) the cry of "Rheinhardt" has echoed for years...
Harvard, like Boston, was founded on cowpaths, and since the average Freshman's mentality has little in common with a cow, he has some difficulty in finding his bearings. But map in hand, and with a few pointers in his head, Mr. '46 will, in the space of a couple of months, have fairly well memorized the ins and outs of his surroundings...
Died. William Roderick ("Will") James, 50, cowboy writer-illustrator (Smoky, Cow Country) in Hollywood. Born in a covered wagon in Montana while his parents were on the trail, he was a working cowhand till a bucking horse injured him, threw him into writing. His mother died when he was a year old, his father was killed by a steer when he was four, and a French-Canadian trapper adopted him and raised him in the wilderness of northwest Canada...