Word: negress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Representatives Joseph Chapman and Jerry Sadler were the chief instigators of the plan and both men made contact with President John Wilson of UT. Sadler had previously made a speech before an Austin gathering opposing the casting of a Negress and suggesting that it would be very difficult for the University to get any appropriations from the state legislature that year...
...basic elements of Rembrandt's painting-his superb brush stroke and bold handling of color, his insistence on psychological insight, his dramatic use of light and shadow-long kept him in eclipse. Though in his own day Velasquez thought nothing of borrowing a pose from Rembrandt's Negress Lying Down (he used it for his own Venus), Rembrandt's reputation became primarily the custody of painters in later generations. In their hands, Rembrandt's work has become one of the richest lodes in Western...
London newspapers duly took note of the song on the occasion of Malan's arrival for the coronation, but the Prime Minister, already bent over by the white man's burden, sagely paid it no mind. Back home in Johannesburg, however, his followers exploded. NEGRESS' SATIRICAL SONG ABOUT DR. MALAN! cried the Nationalist newspaper Die Transvaler. PALACE APPROVES IT; PRESS SLANDER FOLLOWS...