Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...really did ascertain the facts of the case, since the two students involved fled from the elevator's wreckage before they could be questioned. Last week, however, a Greenwich Village weekly newspaper, the Village Voice, published an interview with Paul M. Hollister, Jr. '41, a local author and painter. Half the article was devoted to his recollections on cracking up the elevator...
...Painter Corot did not have to sell his work. The bright, sunny sky he kept throughout his career was well justified by his easy life. Supported by an allowance from his parents (a successful Paris modiste and her bookkeeping husband), the simplehearted, cheerful and generous Corot never knew hardship, was free to travel to Rome, voyage about France, take in Switzerland and Holland. His prime subject was landscape, which he recorded in masses of clear-cut light and shadow just as he saw it. The result, well illustrated by his early study of the Norman port of Honfleur (opposite...
...evince for me can only be a mistake on their part." Yet she was not incapable of self-analysis, and at one point duels shrewdly with Freud: "To reproach mystics with loving God by means of the faculty of sexual love is as though one were to reproach a painter with making pictures by means of colors composed of material substances. We haven't anything else with which to love ... The whole of Freudian doctrine is saturated with the very prejudice which he makes it his mission to combat, namely, that everything that is sexual is base...
...source of meat. They were raised in large numbers, and a famous dog market near Mexico City sold as many as 400 a week. The Spanish clergy tried to suppress this traffic, with only gradual success. For many years the Spanish, too. appreciated roast Xolo. Mexico's famed painter Diego Rivera, who owns 45 hairless dogs, says he has eaten them and found them delicious...
Aladar, the man in the story, comes as reluctantly to love as the girl. Nearing 40, insulated in the creature comforts of habit, he has reached that safe harbor where the winds of memory can no longer wound. He can think without wincing of his failure as a painter, of his wife's deserting him for another man. Now Aladar is a successful businessman who does not seek adventures. On meeting Lalla, he methodically notes that she is a peroxide blonde, pretty, somewhat common, a compulsive liar, but all the same, rather appealing...