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Hofer is a painter well known in America, for he was the Carnegie prize winner in 1934. An extreme pessimist, and a man deeply disturbed by the chaos of modern Europe, he fills his work with stark, dead creatures and gaunt, expressionless figures which reflect all too clearly his outlook for the future...
Onto his train at El Reno, immaculate in blue and with bristly hair well brushed, climbed Oklahoma's gaunt, rustic William H. ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray, who had promised to introduce him at Oklahoma City. Arrived at their destination, the onetime Democratic Governor and the Republican Nominee stepped off the train arm in arm. Alf Landon's throat was scarf-wound against the cold and for further protection he was bundled into a closed car for the drive to the hotel. Friends offered the closed car as explanation of the appalling scene which followed. As Nominee Landon passed through...
...When he tried such crude tactics on chimpanzees in London. Vienna. Berlin and South America, the apes simply got up from their unnatural positions with an air of patient boredom. He then concluded that the intelligence of his subjects called for human methods. By this time Britain's gaunt Biologist Julian Huxley, interested in the experiments, had made it possible for the Austrian to carry on at the London...
...Smithsonian Institution was created by Act of Congress in 1846. Last August it observed its goth birthday, received congratulations from its presiding officer ex officio, President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Last week its gaunt, assiduous Secretary Charles Greeley Abbot published his annual report for fiscal 1935, which furnished a good picture of the multitudinous doings in one year of the ramified organization whose headquarters are in an old red sandstone castle on a broad lawn off Constitution Avenue...
...South is in it, no compromise with the fashionable standards of Renaissance art that Holbein surrendered to, and even Duerer did not escape. Instead, one finds all the intensity of the medieval religion of the North. Every work of Gruenewald has a religious subject. He paints a gaunt Christ, suffering the torments of the martyrs--and this in the years when the Raphaels and Peruginos were turning out the sweet, peaceful solemnity of their religious paintings. The visions of monsters assailing St. Anthony have nothing to do with the Renaissance. Neither have the radiant Resurrection of the Isenheim Altar...