Word: negress
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...must be shown in an exact replica of his old studio. For five years the museum dragged its feet, and it was not until this month that the public could see the studio reproduced, at last cracks and all. There were his rusting tool's the gleaming Blond Negress, the blocklike figures of the Kiss, various versions of the Comb, all looking like upside-down thunderbolts, and a wooden King of Kings resembling vises piled on top of each other, topped by an egg. Each day Brancusi had caressed these pieces, and each night covered them with cloth...
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...
...would like to know why Major Day (TIME Letters, Aug. 12) considers himself a voice for the Jewish people in saying that "Negroes don't like 'Negress' any more than Jews like 'Jewess...