Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Carl Milles accepted Rodin's offer, and he traveled a long way in the master's steps. In time, his own statues were bursting out of bushes, rising from fountains, standing as monuments in city parks and squares all over Europe. Academies honored him; King Gustav V of Sweden called him Carl...
Today, at 29, Héctor Poleo still paints as if he had taken lessons from some Renaissance master. But his subjects are a modern nightmare. His women, like modern Madonnas, mourn, eyes shut against the world. A disfigured war hero stares numbly out of his canvas, his blind eye patched with paper money, his chest covered with worthless medals of tin, cork, broken combs, and tiny crutches. Poleo's trees are dead, his earth pocked and parched, his cities mere ruins and rubble. In some paintings, there are no signs of life at all-only tiny ladders down...
Assistance from the Master. For a while, he earned a living as an assistant to a coffin maker. But he still plugged away at his sculpture. One day an old man with a flowing beard called on him to congratulate him on a statue he had seen. "I have come to offer my assistance. My name," the old man added, "is Rodin...
After 20 years of teaching, Corma Mowrey, with a master's degree from Duke, takes home $276 a month-nine months of the year. Summers she organizes teachers' conferences for the state education department...
...effortless sprint of Waugh's prose discovered a new region of perverse innocence unshadowed by any moral concepts whatever, it was clear that a new master of English satire had emerged...