Word: essayed
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...historian Susan J. Cooke points out in an interesting catalog essay, Dubuffet's portraits of French intellectuals were something more than "literary portraits," as such things might be understood in London or New York City. They dropped, under the decidedly ambiguous title "More Handsome Than They Think," into a culture that had always put a high symbolic value on the idea of the writer as conscience of the society. And this was at a time when quite a few writers (such as Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, editor of the prestigious La Nouvelle Revue Francaise) had betrayed that idea by siding...
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...metaphysical yearnings of the New York school, still less its primitivism. Porter's was very much a modernist vision, but classically so; its main source was Paris, and its exemplars were the great Intimists Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard. From them, as Agee notes in his catalog essay, Porter learned to "paint what you know, what is given to you, what is in front of you, and let the painting speak for itself...
...size of his regular one irresistible. Before his debut, though, he was a bit dubious about this magazine's ways; he commented quizzically on our practice of distilling vast numbers of words into the tiny percentage that see print. Now he is part of the process: a recent Essay he wrote about taxes somehow never appeared. Is he bothered? "Goes with the territory, I guess," he says. In other words, Nawwwwww...
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