Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would like to take this opportunity to express my sympathy at the passing of a great American satirist As the last bastion in defense of the vanishing American man, he, almost alone, valiantly bore the struggle on his capable shoulders. With little help but a great deal of sympathy from his own species he struck terrible blows at the gods of matrimony, offering a smile of hope to the beleaguered American male. But, as is the inevitable lot of those who would scoff at the goddess Venus, he fell victim to the very thing he fought . . . This great satirist...
...complete abstraction." In 1940 he made a gallery of his Boston apartment to exhibit the work of artist friends. But soon after that he began painting less & less and turned more & more toward writing. "A painter lives in his eyes," he says. "I felt a growing need to express myself in words. I'm not a painter any more...
Only a few faculty members have been willing to express their views. Among them is Johannes A. C. F. Auer, professor of Church History and Park-man Professor of Theology, who said that a unified system of education is better for this country than the present system...
Taylor and Dean Raushenbush also express one of the main reasons why the college can grow with its students. Anyone with either a complaint or a suggestion has easy access to Taylor, the Student Council and the faculty committee. If her suggestion is good, it will be adopted. There is no tradition at the college which automatically sets policy. Once the policy is made, however, Mrs. Raushenbush guides its administration. The diminuative, grey-haired dean is loved and admired by every Sarah Lawrence student. While Taylor is forced to spend most of his time on policy, hiring, financial matters...
...bills Norris as a "political" cartoonist, he uses his pen and eye more for mild satire on the passing Canadian social scene. He feels that "symbolism, or worlds with faces and hairy guys labeled 'war,' are not my line." An admirer of famed London Daily Express Cartoonist Carl Giles (TIME, Dec. 11, 1950), Norris shows Giles's influence in his own work. Norris populates his world with shy, baffled citizens, harried housewives, fiercely determined children. He lampoons everything from Canada's first native-born Governor General and the laws against colored margarine to Colonel Blimpism...