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Second Team: Forwards--Bob Roma (Princeton), Tony Price (Penn), and Mike Davis (Cornell); Guards--Glenn Fine(Harvard) and Frank Maturo (Yale).
His work had a categorical, no-nonsense air to it. Davis was a man of marked intellectual energy, and all his transactions as an artist-with subject matter, sources, influences and his constantly explored ideas on the use of art in the real world-were unwobbling and straightforward. He wanted...
But what turned Davis into a complete original was his perception of and enthusiasm for the city. Nothing in French art, other than Leger, resembled Davis' syncopated images of urban life. The blaring posterish color- yellows, scarlets, blacks, emerald greens, a high obtrusive fuchsia - and the writhing knots of...
He cleaved, in Baudelaire's phrase, to "the heroism of modern life"; even nature, as in Arboretum by Flashbulb, 1942, acquired a sharp inorganic speediness under Davis' city eye. Toughness, aggression, careful construction were as characteristic of his art as of the New York it celebrated. The aims...
While the U.S. tennis team was busy routing the South Africans this weekend in the Davis Cup competition at Vanderbilt University, thousands of people marched through the streets protesting U.S. cooperation with apartheid.