Word: marsden
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DIED. IVAN HIRST, 84, British army engineer who retooled Volkswagen's bombed-out factory in Wolfsburg, Germany, at World War II's end to roll out one of the firm's prewar prototypes, which soon became the popular Beetle; in Marsden, England. The British army ordered 20,000 for transport duty, ironically turning Hitler's dream of a "people's car" into a reality...
...specter of provincialism, would have made. He began with those two heroes of realism, Thomas Eakins and Winslow Homer. But Phillips' taste was more for the visionary, especially for the dark, light-mottled sea pieces of Albert Pinkham Ryder, and for the younger painters they inspired--Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, John Marin and others. He was convinced that the defining characteristics of American art were more spiritual than stylistic and that they had been laid down in the 19th century...