Word: max
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surrealists appeared to be on the decline. Max Ernst's bilious yellow Feast of the Gods looked somewhat as if Ernst thought the gods dined on toadstools and mustard. The cleverest thing about Salvador Dali's photographically sharp picture of a cloth egg under a parasol was its title: Geopoliticus...
Curiously Unreal. The $1,500 first prize went to German-born Max Beckmann, 65, whom Hitler denounced and hounded out of Germany as a "degenerate" painter. Beckmann's big Fisherwomen was far from being the jut-jawed old master's best or most ambitious work, but ft did show his genius for color as well as his penchant for whipping cruelty and tenderness together into sexy, curiously unreal oils. His lamplit fisherwomen did not look like the sort that go near the water. Their hot peach flesh was set off by black garters and contrasted with the cold...
Communist Max Reimann, who argues that Adenauer is the tool of the Allies, gibed sneeringly, "Careful, careful...
...members of the Harvard Young Progressives accompanied Chi and Roberts to a parley with Whouley at Hazen's yesterday afternoon. Max Bluestone 2G, spokesman for the group, demanded that Whouley explain why Chi and Roberts were turned down when they applied for part time jobs which later went to white students...
...Max Schoeffler and Dick O'Connell, Tufts' one-two punch in cross-country, lived up to their reputation by placing first and second yesterday afternoon as Harvard dropped its first meet...