Word: homers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stuck to moral absolutes, to the simple opposition between good and bad. Because it doesn't, it is good drama and a subtly disturbing social commentary. The film is set on a ranch in contemporary Texas, and it centers around the battle between Hud and his father Homer (Melvyn Douglas) for the allegiance of Hud's cousin (Brandon de Wilde). Homer's honesty is tied up with his idea of the dignity of work. His cynical son values money and physical pleasure. The temptation to turn Hud into a pious little morality play must have been strong; fortunately...
Liberal Democrats in the House are fighting this week to prevent Speaker John W. McCormack from filling a vacancy on the powerful Rules Committee with Rep. John Young, a conservative Texan. If McCormack's intentions are carried out Young would replace Rep. Homer Thornberry, also of Texas, who has been nominated for a Federal judgeship...
...best-known paintings of Winslow Homer are those of the blistering Caribbean sun, of angry seas, and of the ruggedness of Maine, where he lived out the last years of his life as a virtual recluse. But in the 1870s, when he was still working and living in Manhattan, his chief inspiration came from summer visits to the countryside-upstate New York, for instance, to the tiny town of Mountainville, 60 miles up the Hudson from the city, where one of the mountains has the fierce-sounding name of Storm King. Last week a nostalgic show of the Mountainville paintings...
...rolling landscape west of the river is as peaceful and hospitable as it was when Homer painted it some 90 years ago. The three-year-old gallery, converted from a large mansion with princely gardens and a commanding view, has only the glimmerings of a collection of its own; but if it can put on more shows like this one, it should become a favorite attraction. This show was organized by Lloyd Goodrich, director of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the leading authority on Homer. The paintings are mostly in watercolor, a medium of which Homer...
...prefer every time," Homer once said, "a picture composed and painted outdoors. This making studies and then taking them home to use them is only half right. You get composition, but you lose freshness." Homer must have spent just about every daylight hour outdoors, for in one Mountainville summer alone, he turned out 50 watercolors, plus drawings and oils. He painted everything from sheep grazing in a distant field to grizzled guides, husky young trappers, beguiling children and young shepherdesses. Sometimes-no one knows quite why-he dressed his plowmen and shepherdesses in costumes of the 18th century...