Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next 70 years of his career, interpreting the world of visual reality in new ways with the intellect that glares so defiantly from the eyes of his self-portrait. Yet these same eyes could see their owner in more unlikely lights. "...I really do look like your president Lincoln," Picasso informs an amused Alice B. Toklas in her Autiobiography. Like this trompe-l'oeil version of his own self-image, many quirks of his personal vision could trick his mind's eye into the surrealistic jokes and psychic mutations of physical reality which join so much humor and psychological dimension...
...returning from the Soviet Union shortly after the revolution, Lincoln Steffens wrote, "I have seen the future, and it works." In the afterglow of the victorious revolution, anything seemed possible; a new age had begun! Even as the groundwork of a socialist economy was being laid, Russian Futurist avant-gardists were experimenting with socialist consciousness...
...Lincoln basks in his marble chair...
...four Exeter--Harvard--Advocate men, Peter Galassi, Sandi Pei, Lincoln Caplan, and Chris Ma, to whom this commemoration issue particularly belongs, should have realized the impossibility of a really substantive, revealing retrospective so soon after the author's death. Very personal material must be made public before we will ever know more about the man than he has already told us in his writing. In particular it seems that James Agee was the kind of man very vulnerable to women. For the most part, fraternity and compassion are all that he allowed himself in his fiction. His eroticism, his pride...
...living giant of film history. I would compare him to Picasso in the art world." Martin E. Segal, president of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, was confirming that Charles Spencer Chaplin was coming to Manhattan for an 83rd birthday party at the center before going on to Hollywood to receive a special citation at the Academy Awards on April 10. Charlie Chaplin, a British subject who refused to return to the U.S. for 20 years after the Attorney General demanded that he prove his "moral worth," said he had no more hard feelings. "I had my say," declared Charlie...