Word: muralism
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...Italian-born Rico Lebrun, 60, ranks today not only as the West Coast's most formidable talent, but one of the finest of those painters who work in the tradition of Goya. Syracuse University recently acquired his huge triptych on the Crucifixion; Pomona College has his majestic Genesis mural, completed early this year; the University of California Press has just published a handsome book of his drawings. At first glance, all this might seem to be the work of a bitter and sick imagination; but the man himself is exactly the opposite. "People think I am the most melancholy...
Another public art project, was put on view a fortnight ago with the dedication of a 32-ft.-long mural by Realistic Regionalist Thomas Hart Benton, 72, for the library of fellow-Missourian Harry S. Truman in Independence. Worked up from a three-dimensional clay model and a miniature painting, the mural is, says Benton, whose eyes are tiring, his last major project. The crowded historical pageant, called Independence and the Opening of the West, shows Indians, hunters trappers, French explorers, settlers and adventurers-the men, says Benton, who gradually "changed Independence from a quiet backwoods settlement to the gateway...
...importance of the entry as a basic unit of the freshman class. Monro, however, stated that fears of a loss of espirit de corps in the entries were ungrounded since such a feeling rarely exists. "All the entries have holding them together at the present time are the intra-mural teams and the waterfights," he observed...
...Second City and San Francisco's hungry 1; a few are still more or less beat, and suffer for it. The famed Gas House in Los Angeles' Venice West grows ever longer on sideburns and shorter on talent. Denver's Green Spider hides behind an exterior mural of a fat blonde nude dancing with a shocking-pink centaur, and has no entertainment except spontaneous poetry readings by bearded bards who specialize in dirty dactyls...
Four years of Soccer (Freshman numerals and squad member '58, '59 and letter winner '60); Rugby Club; Intra Mural Basketball; Calsson Club; House Track; Winthrop House Dance Committee; Pi Eta Club Officer; Hasty Pudding-Institute...