Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other scientists, perhaps a little closer to earth than Dr. Einstein, had pretty well demonstrated that the only "secret"' was the manufacturing process, and that it could not be kept very long. Having worked so hard to destroy the fallacy, they took a poor view of the master's repeated reference to "the secret." On his suggestion that a committee of three settle everything, practical internationalists maintained a polite silence...
...genteel lobby into a monument of weariness and melancholy. Born 63 years ago, tall (6 ft. 4 5/8 in.), quiet Edward Hopper started slowly, hit his stride after 40. His plain pictorial statements of what he sees are so authoritatively final that some critics regard him as a U.S. master...
...Pittsburgh jazz fan found him, a toothless stooped laborer in the rice fields at New Iberia, La., got him some false teeth and raised money for a horn (TIME, May 24, 1943). Said the New York Herald Tribune's highbrow critic Virgil Thomson: "[Bunk] is the greatest master of blues or off-pitch notes ... an artist of delicate imagination...
...Picasso still life unhelpfully entitled Painting, in white, yellow, pale blue and black, showed that Old Master Picasso still wielded a powerful brush. Forbidden to exhibit during the occupation, he painted every day. Picasso's message to U.S. artists: "Tell them to work hard - like...
...Master Braque's Interior, one of the hits of the Autumn Salon, was a solemn rectangle of silence in the general, uproar of the show. Painted almost entirely in black and grey, with a few dabs of orange, its solid, weighty strength made some of the gayer pictures look thin and forced. Braque has been living in unapproachable solitude for the past few years...