Word: finests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stodgy But Vital. Frans Hals, one of the finest of portrait painters, recorded an era of Dutchmen who, aside from a few laughing fisherboys, gypsies and assorted tipplers, must have been a pretty stodgy lot. Yet Hals gave them a vitality that still jumps from the canvas. Hals never worked from sketches; he drew simply and directly with his brush, building his invariably harmonious compositions almost by instinct. He wasted no time on frills or dramatics; his presentation was straightforward, sometimes even stark. Yet his brush was so light and fluid that even when his subjects appear in a void...
...there are some books in educators offer a good deal at the end of a long , drawing on autobiography . The two finest that to mind are Bliss Perry's ladly Teach (1935) and Johnson's Campus Versus room (1946). At the other their careers, nine young contributed to the eye opening anthology The New Professors (1960), edited by Robert O. Bowen; particularly valuable are the sections by Otto Butz, Jay A. Young and Glenn Leggett...
...literary and social criticism of the last ten years or so is not as good as it should be. One judges Mr. Kazin by his own high standards: his first, best book On Native Grounds, a study of American literature from then to now, is one of the finest brief surveys of the field, comprehensive yet insightful, carefully thought-out but delightfully without a theory to hawk, Kazin has traveled far on the reputation this book gained for him; unhappily, he has not reached its level in any of his later books, and Contempories marks no departure from this disappointing...
...finest work does not bear his name. In 1943 Pope Pius asked Bea's help in writing an encyclical letter on Bible scholarship; the resulting document. Divino afflante Spiritn, has been hailed by Catholic Bible scholars as their 20th century declaration of independence because of the latitude it gave them in Biblical interpretation. Two years later, Pope Pius asked Bea to become his confessor...
...date, bigger even than the collection at New York's Chase Manhattan Bank. More important than the size of the investment was the quality it had bought. When Director James Rorimer of the Metropolitan Museum of Art saw transparencies of the paintings, he said they formed the finest collection of current American art he had ever seen...