Word: limped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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True abstractionists have for the fur teacups, disembodied heads and limp watches of surrealism all the disdain of the conservative National Academy of Design. The basis of their philosophy is that a picture should not attempt to represent anything or suggest anything, should be an exercise in pure form, sufficient unto itself. In the introduction to the elaborate catalog of last week's show the Baroness Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen, moderately well-known as an abstractionist in her own right, wrote...
Salvador Dali was first brought to the U. S. and given an exhibition in 1934 under the sponsorship of Dealer Julien Levy. Immediately one picture created a sensation. Entitled The Persistence of Memory, it showed a group of watches, limp as dead flounders and crawling with insects, drooping from the branches of a dead tree by the seaside, all this on a panel the size of a sheet of typewriter paper and painted in color as brilliant as a Flemish primitive. It now belongs to the Museum of Modern Art and was a headliner in last week's exhibition...
...fines. The Negroes were enslaved, it was charged, because Peacher was short of labor due to a strike of cotton choppers in the vicinity. Best Government witness was Winfield Anderson, cowering 51-year-old Negro who sat in the witness chair with his paralyzed right arm hanging limp at his side. Witness Anderson testified that he was sitting on the front porch of his home, which he owns, when "De Law" accosted him, asked him where he worked. Anderson replied that he did not work, but lived on $10 a week he received as compensation for his injured arm. Peacher...
Classroom contacts, the tutorial system, and the limp, faculty-inspired gatherings are starvation rations for the man who is really interested in his subject. Men who want to make a career out of their field of concentration and men who are not satisfied with the regular routine of assignments need an organization similar to the Council of Government Concentrators. In these panel discussions the big men of the department carry on a sort of free debate on various topics of general interest, concerning either college affairs or national and international problems. These meetings have immense potentialities, particularly the development...
...squad worked out against Princeton plays, with every man in good shape with the exception of Roberts, who still has a pronounced limp...