Word: divisionist
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...potatoes' face this convention? The famed Red Question is not likely to flare into the open, although candidates for office are making quite clear the nature of their attitude toward alleged Communist Party divisionist tactics within AVC. At this premature point indications are that the so-called "party line" caucus controls far smaller minority influence than at last year's parley. There are predictions to date that its chief efforts will be concentrated upon the election of Norris Holferd of California to the post of chairman, and of Franklin Williams of New York, currently a National Planning Committee member...
...also generally recognized that Seurat's genius was only in small part attributable to his method, to the science of optics or of anything else. He was a "divisionist," to be sure, but he was first & foremost a great painter-a master of complex composition (the receding planes in La Grande Jatte are extraordinary) and an inspired colorist. He produced only seven large, major canvases, but his hundreds of drawings and oil sketches are rarities in themselves, and his calm vacation seascapes painted at Honfleur and Grandcamp are among the finest chapters in the painted literature of the ocean...
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