Word: pioneerism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Play it as it lays, Harry Wyeth told his daughter. Wyeth, a gambler in the respected, dead-end tradition of the pioneer. Losing their home in Reno, he moved his wife and child to Silver Wells, Nevada, there built a motel "that would have been advantageously situated at a freeway exit had the freeway been built." Maria grows up, in turn loses, in Los Angeles, in Vegas, in Marriage and at motherhood. Ends up in Neuropsychiatric. "I was raised to believe that what came in on the next roll would always be better than what went out on the last...
...signed his work. One day in 1940, Jean Lipman, editor of Art in America, noticed Porter's signature and date on a mural. She followed up the clue, studied his style, slowly identified his other works, and eventually pieced his lifetime together in her book, Rufus Porter, Yankee Pioneer...
...loved. Here was excitement. America needed heroes and made them in her own image. Certainly people talked of international cooperation, but we wanted to beat the Russians on our own. If they could send a satellite around the moon, we could send one around the sun and call it Pioneer or Ranger and make it send back bleeps and photographs and even the recorded voice of Dwight Eisenhower...
...last week to visit the American heartland and refresh themselves in the clear air of the Western plains and mountains. Mrs. Nixon showed the Administration's concern for the original Americans as she greeted Indian children in New Town, N.Dak. The President made friends as he hailed the pioneer spirit of the Mormons at a meeting with church elders in Salt Lake City. Honored and flattered by his visit, citizens in Fargo, N.Dak., turned out to cheer enthusiastically as the President said, "It's great to be in rural America." He was also greeted by a front-page...
Jane Wade, one of the pioneer American-born private dealers, started out as a secretary to the late Curt Valentin, one of New York's most successful public dealers. "Do you paint?" asked Valentin when he interviewed her. "No." "Then you're hired." She soon was much more than a secretary, working with Valentin's artists-Calder, Lipchitz, Moore, Arp-on their shows. She became vice president of Marlborough-Gerson Gallery before going into business for herself. In judging the value of a painting or sculpture, she never seeks other opinions, relies exclusively on her own years...