Word: details
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Evergood's canvas is a New World extension of Hogarth's more modest hymn to feminine vitality, the 18th century Shrimp Girl in London's National Gallery. Where Hogarth suppressed all detail and strong color to concentrate on his model's glowing face, Evergood does the opposite. His girl is no prettier or more sensate-seeming than a doll, with chalky flesh and blaring costume. Yet she dominates her cluttered setting like a new, pagan deity, a personification of summertime on American shores...
...could turn around a country like the U.S. The question, said the President, reminded him of the time -several years ago-when he was testifying before a congressional committee on military appropriations. He told the committee how a division of troops is deployed in battle, explaining in detail where the headquarters would be, how the communications would be set up, where the supplies would be located, how the men would be moved under varying circumstances. When he had finished, an admiral who had been testifying at the same hearing broke in to tell the committee: "After hearing that...
Since the leading Distributists seemed to be Catholics, Witcutt began to study the Roman Catholic system of thought. "It at once attracted me," he writes. "Here was an intellectual scheme moulded and shaped, it seemed, to include every detail. One had only to make an act of faith and one was settled, intellectually, for life. No more questions need be asked...
...postwar western is gradually moving away from "naive grandeur" toward social documentation and psychological detail, according to Jean-Paul Sartre's monthly Les Temps Modernes: "The 'neo-western' has developed in the direction of ambiguity . . . Under the double influence of 'black' films and psychoanalytical films, westerns have enriched themselves with a clinical description of the half-crazy desperadoes who roam the desert." Examples: Rawhide Ranger (1941) and Coroner Creek...
...President's regular traveling companion is a burly Irishman from The Bronx, James Rowley. 46, the special agent in charge of the White House Detail. In crowded reception halls, he moves at the President's elbow; when the President makes an address, Rowley is a pace behind him, impassive and alert; when the President rides in a car, Rowley sits in the front seat. Rowley went to work as a bank investigator at 18, but continued to go to school nights, nine years later earned his law degree from Brooklyn's St. John's University...