Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forget that in 1960 you're going to have to run on Eisen hower's record." To another he appealed: "This is a straight political issue. Are you going to let the Democrats get away with it?'' With a farm-state critic of Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, he agreed: "All right, he is an s.o.b. - but he's our s.o.b." When the vote was taken, the veto stood. Indiana's Charles Abraham Halleck, 58, minority leader of the House of Representatives, had won another victory for the Eisenhower Administration. He had done...
...waitress. Now, with a Prix de Rome and a Fulbright between them, they are both fulltime painters. San Francisco-born James Leong, who supports his wife and children on concurrent Guggenheim and Fulbright grants, rediscovered his own Chinese heritage in Rome, now turns out paintings of figures that one critic noted "look as though they are wrapped in dry leaves. If they moved, you could hear them crackle." In contrast with the age-old tradition of hiring a model and making her a mistress. St. Louis-born Sculptor Allen Harris, 34, who last year won Philadelphia's Da Vinci...
Gnoli was strictly raised for his profession by his father, an art expert and critic. At twelve, the boy was required not only to identify art styles at a glance, but also to imitate them precisely on paper. "Father smoked so much at my drawing sessions," he recalls, "that by the end of the day I couldn't see him across the studio. He was like Zeus on a dais; you had to cut through clouds...
...column. The gentle and often limp anecdotes of his syndicated "The Lyons Den" (106 newspapers) picture the great as playing a perpetual game of conversational pattyball, in which the backhand blast is taboo, and the score is always love-love. "So many people use print to tyrannize," says Drama Critic John Mason Brown. "Lyons just wants to inhale the world...
...Confused critics confessed that they found Gallizio's drippings and crisscross calligraphy as good as or better than most abstractions. Said the art critic of Munich's Süddeutsche Zeitung: "After all, in the circus we have learned to discern fine artistry and great human values beneath a clown." Said irreverent Painter Pinot Gallizio, a former professor of chemistry and amateur archaeologist who turned painter only seven years ago: "Painting as such has reached the end of its road. From now on, the human eye will be perfectly satisfied by seeing any color or shape, provided...