Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Replacing Meyer will be Art Painter and Dave Bodiker. Painter is a junior, who worked at fullback as a freshman and was ineligible last year. This thumping tackles were a highlight of Saturday's game with Columbia. Also a junior, Bodiker missed much of last season and spent part of his limited time with the squad at end. Behind these two at center is sophomore Dick Holzschuh...
...caricature and opulent colors like a jolting left hook to attack what he considered the evils of society. Now a hatchet-faced 39, Levine has simmered down some. "Don't call me angry," he says, with a thin smile. More important, Levine has steadily improved both as a painter and as an ovserver. In his words, he "used to be a puncher" and is now "a boxer...
...Eakins," Whitman once opined, "is not a painter, he is a force." To criticisms of Eakins' portrayal, Whitman retorted: "It is likely to be only the unusual person who can enjoy such a picture-only here and there one who can weigh and measure it according to its own philosophy. Eakins would not be appreciated by ... professional elects: the people who like Eakins best are the people who have no art prejudices to interpose...
Whitman's appraisal of Eakins still stands. Next to Winslow Homer, Eakins (1844-1916) is the finest painter America has produced, and is still sneered at by some "professional elects." Eakins made art the servant of honesty; he chose showing over showiness, and thereby earned the lasting admiration of men who, like Whitman, place the true even higher than they do the beautiful...
...whether a description of a mass killing was fact or fiction, Koestler wrote a blast that many readers-many of his fellow intellectuals-will have to take to heart: "You would blush if you were found out not to have heard the name of any second-rate contemporary writer, painter or composer...but you don't blush...to ask whether it is true that you are the contemporary of the greatest massacre in recorded history ... As long as you don't feel . . . ashamed to be alive while others are put to death; not guilty, sick, humiliated because...