Word: nude
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...core of astute truth, and contained a clue to Wilde's ripe mixture of estheticism and grossness, charm and repulsiveness, sincerity and exhibitionism. His genius consisted in living, in the most hostile environment possible-Victoria's industrial England-as though he were a pagan Greek, "noble and nude and antique." With his trial, imprisonment and shabby ending, Biographer Winwar has no difficulty tracing Wilde's life as a modern Greek tragedy-if an extraordinarily counterfeit...
...picked up a subtropical island for a figurative song. Three hundred acres of tangled mangrove, pine, palm and sandy beach, just off the Florida Gulf Coast 23 miles northwest of Tampa, the property (Hog Island to the natives; Caladesi to mapmakers) apparently wasn't worth much in the nude. Promoter Washburn, who holds a big backlog of Florida real estate (including some $250,000 worth of cheaply bought Gulf Coast property), saw possibilities in Hog Island...
Frenchman Aristide Maillol (pronounced Mayoll) made a long false start. For ten years he tried to paint; for another six he designed tapestries. When he was nearly 40 he took a tree trunk, carved from it a nude figure that he liked very much. Thereupon Aristide Maillol became a sculptor. At 78 he is dean of them all. Last week a show of his work opened in Manhattan's Buchholz Gallery, demonstrated Oldster Maillol's extraordinary talent for imbuing sculpture with both vitality and repose...
...nine discovered George Borrow's Lavengro, the classic of gypsy life. Then & there she "knew perfectly well that Borrow's books had changed -forever - my life. . . ." Eventually she found what she was looking for - primitive, half-naked, arrogant gypsies in sultry caves near Almeria in Spain; nude flamenco dancers in the dives of Barcelona; tinkering tribes in the forest of Rumania; Andalusian gypsies who cured her fever with feverish music. But Lady Eleanor's stories of the gypsies are curiously impersonal and sketchy...
...Francisco Vidal's classic Nude (see cut, p. 55) with draperies, a firmly modeled figure against a glowing Argentine landscape...