Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exhibited with the impressionists out of deference to his friend Manet, but he hated being called an impressionist. Actually he stands alone in the history of French art, an austere, bitter-tongued man who refused to paint outdoors because he did not want to catch cold. Degas was an expert on the human figure, which he handled as objectively as a chair. He was not sentimental about ballet, described his dancer-models as "little rats." One of the "rats" once remarked that "when you work for Degas you feel every bone in your body." Anyone who looks long...
...North, the movie is no sermon or diatribe. It makes its points with all the tang and suspense of a good adventure yarn. It has its rough spots in story-and no doubt in scientific -logic, but these are effectively smoothed over by the realism of actual Washington backgrounds, expert technical effects and the presence of such radio news commentators as Drew Pearson, Elmer Davis and H. V. Kaltenborn, chattering away in the familiar accents of crisis...
...traveller, middle-aged at 32, stops in New Orleans, where he finds himself undefineably drawn to a night-club dancer. His gradual realization of her perversity is roughly the point of the story; but it is so subtly prepared that some many miss it entirely. The effect derives from expert restraint and ambiguity, qualities that are apparent especially after a second reading...
Both stories have their limitations; they offer perceptive characterization and expert use of words but, among other things, little activity. Both preserve a tone of detachment, the one of youth, the other of experience. Into this mood feelings no stronger than nostalgia, anxiety, or boredom can intrude. Those looking for more potent emotions may well be disappointed...
...former State Department expert on Latin America, asserts Woltman, had been linked by testimony with the Alger Hiss inquiry. Friends of Duggan have strongly defended him against all attacks on his reputation...