Word: lobe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drawings and water colors of Picasso there is evidence of a widespread tendency in modern art toward the expression of an extremely limited aspect of a subject. The Greeks would have smiled at those who become ecstatic in contemplation of a shoulder blade, a heel, or a lobe of an ear seen from an unusual angle. And many contemporary artists, in their fragmentary, abortive, productions, have given more proof of ingenuity than of genius...
...familiar figure at the pub, goes into partnership with Farmer Kindred. His housekeeper falls in love with him, but he is too busy becoming a farmer to notice it, though he gives her much too much good advice about her worthless husband, and once even bites off the lobe of that worthy's ear in her defense. Mulliver is already committed to a farmer's lass; the housekeeper and her brutal husband disappear; the converted grocer marries the girl. It is a pleasantly rustic idyll, with enough quaint dialect to tickle good humor, just enough "real life...