Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ralph H. Cutler, Jr. '40, chairman said that the student campaigners have secured the support of Father O'Hara, president of Notre-Dama University and member of the American delegation at the recent Pan-American conference at Lima, Peru...
Getting practically no ordinary education, Picasso worked off his ingenuity in drawing and painting at home. When he was 14, his father moved to Barcelona to take a post as professor in the School of Fine Arts. Picasso's precocity was already such that at 15 he left his father's instruction and set up his own studio, first in Madrid and later in Barcelona. His painting at this time was perfectly strong, finished and professional. Too poor to furnish his Barcelona studio, he amused himselt by painting on the walls, in great detail, the missing pieces...
...same little restaurant on the same pasty food, will then take a cafe-creme at the Cafe de Flore, almost always with the same group. His wit, which has made him feared by sycophants, is famous and often malicious. Examples: (of a young girl artist) "Her mother drinks, her father drinks, and it is she who has the red nose"; (of James Joyce) "an obscur whom everyone can understand." Picasso's critics do not like the way he pretends that nothing he says can have any really damaging effect. They point to this as one more symptom of spoiled...
...Archbishop John J. Glennon were more than annoyed; they demanded that Dr. Fleisher resign from the group of sponsors. Dr. Fleisher disavowed responsibility for the priest's remarks, refused to resign. Last week, as Dr. Fleisher was bounced out of the University for "His sponsorship of a [Father O'Flanagan's] lecture," the American Association of University Professors bounced in, started an investigation to determine whether the University had breached academic freedom...
...life chronicle, it begins in 1902, ends last year. Between those dates Robin Stewart, son of a rich Australian ranchman, is a schoolboy, a university student, a ranch owner (75,000 acres), polo player, soldier, husband of an older woman who nags him and whom he drives insane, father of one illegitimate and two legitimate children, lover of one woman who loves him for himself, another who loves him for herself, another who loves him in spite of herself. A failure as a rancher, he becomes a Sydney intellectual, a magazine writer, a disorganized radical, at last finds the meaning...