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Giotto, says Ortega, was "a painter of solid and independent bodies." Three centuries later, Velasquez emphasized "hollow space"-the area between the eye and the thing seen. In recording only a dazzle of colored lights, the impressionists brought painting smack up to the retina. Picasso carried the same process a step further, painting what was back of the eyeball, inside his head. "[In the Picasso school] the eyes, instead of absorbing things, are converted into projectors of private flora and fauna. Before, the real world drained off into them; now, they are reservoirs of irreality...
...wrestle with Britain's worsening financial plight, the conference of Commonwealth finance ministers met last week. An official later described the cheerless scene in Room D of the British Cabinet Offices: "They sat at blue-black, baize-covered tables in a hollow square, all looking inward and all with their backs to the wall." At one morning session, scheduled to begin at 10:30, a Commonwealth representative arrived ten minutes late. "Good evening," said Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps, with a frosty smile. "Good afternoon," was the reply...
...Games. From such macabre work, one might imagine Rose to be a hollow-eyed ascetic; actually he is a gay little blade whose 39 years have been a brilliant whirligig of international fun and games with such friends as Stein, Berard, Cecil Beaton, Louis Bromfield and the Wellington Koos. Rose spent five years studying Chinese art and poetry in China, hurried home to join the R.A.F. in 1939. Married to British Novelist Dorothy Carrington, he now sticks reasonably close to his Chelsea studio...
...Academy, Milton, Mass. Cushing, Matthew of 27 Dixwell Avenue, Quincy, Mass.; Thayer Academy, Braintree, Mass. Jertson, Jan Earl of 70 Green Street, Fairhaven, Mass.; Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N. H. Kimball, John Ward of 50 School Street, Andover, Mass.; Phillips Academy, Andover Mass. Lowry, Edward George, 3rd of Sweet Hollow Road, Huntington, N. Y.; Pomfret School, Pomfret Conn. Mason, James William of 2005 Dalton Rr., Greensboro, N. C.; Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N. H. Newbury, Samuel Parkman of 2 Newton Street, Weston. Mass.; Milton Academy, Milton, Mass. Nichols, John Doane of Clinton Avenue, Westport, Conn.; Loomis School, Windsor, Conn. Petschek...
...Detroit's Plum Hollow, Pro Ray Maguire made history of a sort by sinking two holes in one in 36 holes of qualifying play, then failed to qualify...