Word: likeness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...published three books, is now at work on a fourth. "If it is better to travel than to arrive," he says, "it is because traveling is a constant arriving, while arrival that precludes further traveling is most easily attained by going to sleep or dying." At 90, like the perpetual inquiry he has sponsored, John Dewey is still arriving...
...years, Oregon has had a law forbidding high-school secret societies but in Oregon's largest city, high-school kids have paid no attention. In Portland (pop. 400,000), the societies flourish. They have mysterious names like EUK, Pack and Domino; they pledge socially prominent classmates, hotshot athletes or just kids "who have something," from convertibles to "cute personalities...
...Critic James Johnson Sweeney, "is also one of the valuable raw materials of the country. Bad taste, strong colors-it is all here for the painter to organize and get the full use of its power. Girls in sweaters with brilliant-colored skin; girls in shorts dressed more like acrobats in the circus than one would ever come across on a Paris street. If I had only seen girls dressed in good taste [in the U.S.] I would never have painted my cyclist series...
...well as the paintings of the granddaddy of Paris primitives, Le Douanier Rousseau. Les Loisirs came as close to nature as anything Léger had done for years; he even painted the sky blue instead of dark red as he had first intended. Even so, its handsomeness was like that of a glistening machine designed and put together by a master engineer...
...their use of color the paintings of the impressionists were like windows looking out onto sun-filled space. Van Gogh's were more like lamps; the powerful contrasts of pure color created an effect of light-vibration which was not confined to the pictures themselves but seemed to radiate from them. And where the impressionists minimized drawing, he applied an oriental concept that he had learned from studying the woodcuts of the 19th Century Japanese artists, Hiroshige and Hokusai. To Van Gogh, as to the Japanese, line was more than a lasso for capturing shapes...