Word: donning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"I don't think art should be shocking, necessarily," says Painter Paul Cadmus, "but it should be disturbing." Cadmus, who combines a steady hand with a jaundiced eye, had never failed to disturb people and earn a living by it, but his first exhibition of paintings in twelve years...
Cadmus hopes against hope that the series will be sold as a group to decorate a church (price: $20,000). "I don't believe," he says wistfully, "that any of my paintings would encourage anyone to sin." As nightmare personifications of evil, the Sins were frightening enough; as pictures...
Apart from Herrin and the Sins, the most ambitious picture in the show was a summer landscape seething with happy nudes and entitled What I Believe. The painting did not make Cadmus' belief plain (unless he had meant to plump for nudism and close quarters), but it did at...
We keep his shirts from shrinking, We make his dates for drinking, We keep his glasses clinking . . . Protect him when he's stinking, But we don't do what you're thinking with the boss.*
At 60, squat, articulate Dr. Fishbein was still full of energy and plans. Said he: "I don't feel like relaxing. There is no fixed retirement age for human beings. I have been associated recently with five men over 80 in the medical profession, and they are still doing...