Word: eyeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Long after he had settled in Philadelphia, his fellow townsmen regarded Stephen Girard as a very strange fellow. He was a Frenchman-a squat, swarthy ex-sea captain with one blind eye, an insane wife, and a taste for gold lace and velvet breeches. He smuggled opium and traded in rum, but he named his ships after the Philosophes. Though he became one of the richest Americans of his time, he boasted that he could still eat on 20? a day. Philadelphians called him, among other things, a miser...
...best of the portraits looked as if they had been dashed on to the canvas in an hour apiece; yet many of them had the kind of intensity that persists in the mind's eye for a lifetime. John's view of Poet Dylan Thomas, with the poet's chubby face and curly hair, hits a high pitch of adolescent sensuality, freshness and innocence; it might well outlast Thomas' own vivid verse...
John had gone ahead with the job, on the principle that "the portrait painter should allow no moral bias to affect his attitude to the sitter. The exploration of character should be left, with confidence, to the eye alone. Heaven knows what it may discover!" In Fuller, John's glaring eye discovered a well-fed man of conscience-dignified, amiable, and perhaps not particularly intelligent...
Most of John's portraits on exhibition last week shared a quality that went beyond his sharp eye and skilled, sensitive hand. They had warmth. Even the portrait of Governor Fuller, who was hardly John's sort, showed that the artist's heart, as well as his art, had been called into play. In his autobiography, the old man, looking back, decides that "Love is a vagrant and when we revisit the tents, we find the gypsies gone and nothing left of them but a few rags and the black circles of their fires." John...
...summer of 1944 the French Resistance press came out from, its underground print shops with ink on its hands and blood in its eye. In Paris and the provinces, squads of grim newsmen toting Tommy guns took over the Nazi-controlled newspaper plants and ousted the collaborationists. Almost overnight, the press of the nation was reborn...