Word: paule
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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James Southworth ("Jim") Parker used to teach at St. Paul's School (Concord, N. H.). In 1898 he went to farming, in Salem, N. Y. His neighbours saw he had "book learnin' " and sent him to the legislature, then Congress (in 1913). He wears square-cut clothes, stutters a little, reads studiously. As chairman of the Interstate & Foreign Commerce Committee he supervises much intricate legislation and shares with Cheesemaker Snell in commanding the Republican half of New York's big delegation...
...garish Tahitian fantasies of Paul Gauguin. He found the soft woods and streams of Brittany an exhausted subject. He lived, painted and died in the South Seas, where sunlight bursts like bombshells on labyrinthine foliage, showers lustrous patterns on voluptuous dark flesh...
...hard honesties of Paul Cézanne. Most scrupulous of painters, he lived like an eremite, relentlessly purged his optic sense of all illusion, all imaginative invention. Fearing dishonesty he painted, repainted, erased everything and painted again...
...Conservative criticism might lead ignorant laymen to believe that impressionists & post-impressionists are frenzied young anarchists. But the leaders have all died. Paul Cézanne, pioneer postimpressionist, succumbed to diabetes...
...Harvard Union will present the second of its informal Sunday evening entertainments in the Living Room at 8 o'clock tomorrow. The presentation which is open to members of the Union, will be a concert presented by Albert W. Lind '29, violinist, and Paul G. Anderson pianist...