Word: frugalities
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...days of smaller towns and more frugal ways, Christmas was a simpler and a quieter time. In Indiana everyone cut his own tree in the woods and decorated it with strings of popcorn, gingerbread men, chains of red and green paper, and small colored candles (it was a worrisome thing for Father, who planted himself in a nearby chair with a bucket of water at hand). On Christmas Eve the whole town went to church to see the tableaux of the Nativity performed by the Sunday School children, draped in tablecloths, piano covers and nightgowns. Next morning came the presents...
...Poland's Tadeusz Kulisiewicz, 62, Best Foreign Graphic Artist. One of the most representational of the exhibitors, Kulisiewicz is frugal of line, heavy in mood. His most striking work: The Dance of the Old Men, in which three aching figures hobble about on canes, their grotesque heads stiffly bobbing in rhythm...
...account concluded, "They were an industrious and frugal people and were known to be honest and reliable...
...Well, let's have-like a class." said Duskin one recent afternoon. Subject: materialism. In ambled Emerson's 13 summer students-mussed boys in need of haircuts (one beard), and ethereal girls in need of bras. Their wan look might have been due to their frugal lunch: beef broth, casaba melon. Duskin snapped them awake: "I don't allow irrelevant statements. Your comments must either advance my thought or contradict it." Firmly in control, Duskin hammered his theme-the dispassion of Homer. "Remember," he said, "Helen makes it in the end. She falls back on Menelaus...
...symbols or borrowings from nature. "What I make." says De Rivera, "represents nothing but itself. My work is really an attempt to describe the maximum space with the minimum of material." Directed toward that goal, at once so simple and so difficult, his sculptures become triumphs of frugal elegance. Each curve, each line, each swirl follows every other so naturally that of the unlimited possibilities that confronted him, it seems, almost invariably, that the artist has picked the only one that is just right...