Word: musts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That career started with years of severe schooling, during which Matisse supported himself by copying old masters in the Louvre. ("One must learn to walk firmly on the ground," he told his own students later, "before one tries the tightrope.") When he married at 23, Matisse was considered a rising young academician. Soon afterward, he ruined his reputation; he willfully destroyed a perfectly adequate still life he had just finished instead of sending it to his dealer. "It did not represent me," explained Matisse. "I count my emancipation from that...
...painted what they felt about it, and they inclined to look more at their pictures than at their subjects. It remained for the living moderns, led by Picasso and Matisse, to give the final twist. A painting, they decided, is a painting first and foremost, and whatever it represents must be secondary. Granted that much, they felt perfectly justified in making their own rules, regardless of "appearances." Some (the nonobjective painters) chose to ignore nature altogether, but Henri Matisse never went that...
...Spiritual Heir. "If this self-criticism is just, then we must revise the whole of our present conception of modern history.. . . Our present view of modern history focuses attention on the rise of our modern Western secular civilization as the latest great new event in the world. ... If we can bring ourselves to think of it, instead, as one of the vain repetitions of the Gentiles-an almost meaningless repetition of something that the Greeks and Romans did before us and did supremely well-then the greatest new event in the history of mankind will be seen...
...basis of Berdyaev's antiCommunist, anti-capitalist social philosophy, which he called "personalism." Like most 20th Century thinkers, he saw the contemporary world as in a state of flux between the final breakup of an old civilization and the beginning of a new. Christians, he argued, must concentrate...
Left-Wing Cad. Leisurely, precise Percy Cudlipp is a first-rate political journalist and a competent, quick-minded editor. Cudlipp sits in with Labor M.P.s on party policy debates, and must answer the closed-door criticisms of his readers at the Labor Party Congress each year. The Herald lambasted Fuel Minister Shinwell in last year's coal crisis, often prints signed critical articles by Labor backbenchers...