Word: paints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...played the part with dash and style. As a boy, he liked to lie in bed and outline hovering nudes on the ceiling with pistol shots. At 15, he was arrested for throwing eggs at his teacher during an art student strike; the teacher wouldn't let them paint outdoors. "Since then," he murmurs, lowering his bright green eyes, "I've been taken to jail nearly 70 times...
...thesis: art is for social welfare, not private pleasure, and should therefore be large-scale and easy to understand. The three men formed the nucleus of a union-the Syndicate of Technical Workers, Painters and Sculptors-and negotiated contracts with an extraordinarily sympathetic and discerning government to paint murals at so much per square meter...
Gallerygoers who tried to deduce Yeats's personality from his work might imagine him as an angry, half-blind, stammeringly intense young giant, paint-spattered from head to foot. Murky smears sparked with gobs and drippings of candy-bright color, his huge, swirling landscapes, seascapes and reeling street scenes all look as if they are on fire and half burnt-out already. The panting energy in Yeats's art, and his violent disregard for nature, are impressive and repulsive as well. They are not easy to connect with the wistful-eyed, closemouthed little Dubliner he really...
...townspeople gave their schoolhouse a new coat of paint inside & out; the well water was tested, and the grass was cut. On the first day of school the teacher, Mrs. Norman Melius, unlocked the doors and sorted out the textbooks. Not a pupil appeared. Every day for a month she showed up at the schoolhouse, but still no pupils came. Mrs. Melius was not surprised: it had been that way for three years...
...listen, thinking move and more of how big and tough they are at Dartmouth, and remembering stories of how they paint Harvard people green for being spies...