Word: individualist
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Getting His. The farmer himself, aware of all the complaints about farm subsidies and wasteful gluts, had begun to be touchily defensive about the whole subject. Neither the parasite that many a city dweller considered him nor the unfettered, rugged individualist he liked to fancy himself, he felt entitled to help from his Government. Industry, after all, had its tariffs and its Government contracts; the airlines and the shipping lines had their subsidies; the working man had social security, a guaranteed minimum wage. Why shouldn...
...paints nature as knowingly as Winslow Homer and with even greater freedom (TIME, Jan. 9). As Washington's Duncan Phillips put it in the exhibition catalogue, Marin "is one of the most gifted and important painters since Cezanne and perhaps the best of all masters of watercolor. An individualist and mostly self-taught and indifferent to theories, he sought at the outset of his career for abbreviated personal symbols of color and line-a green triangle for a pine, a zigzag for a wave, symbols comparable to Chinese characters...
Back of the rum fun stood an individualist whose openhearted Christianity commanded as much respect as his painting skill. He had done the Resurrection, Spencer said, for a very simple reason: "If you are going to paint anything good, you've got to link up with something good . . . something holy. What's holier than the dead and the idea of their coming back to bask in life, another kind of life...
...betters. In his literary criticism and political essays he pricked, provoked and badgered lazy minds, delighted those who enjoyed watching an original intelligence at work. He wrote English with rare vigor, eschewed frills and cliches, wasted no time in getting to the heart of what mattered. He was an individualist of a rare kind: he wanted other people to be individualists too. He will be missed, if only because he kept begging modern man not to become an ultra-modern slave...
...best in this study of tenuous human relationships in wartime Britain. To Be a Pilgrim, Joyce Gary's fourth novel to be published in the U.S., was a knowing, good-humored look at 20th Century British manners & morals seen through the eyes of an old Victorian individualist. England's shyest novelist and one of her best, Henry Green, made his American bow with Loving. A dense, subtly written and poetic novel of character with an Irish-castle setting, it fully deserved the British critical puffs that preceded it. The most overrated British novel of the year was Hope...