Word: poliakoff
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...indeed what Michael B. Poliakoff thinks of when someone mentions wrestling. An assistant professor of Greek and Latin at Wellesley College, Poliakoff dubs himself the "world expert of ancient wrestling because no one else is even interested...
Explaining that the Greeks saw wrestling as the ultimate combination of mind and body, Poliakoff, who was an all-Ivy wrestler at Yale, says, "Though training and strength were quite important, the sport above all required skill, finesse and leverage...
...look somewhat mannered and superficial; no wonder that the paintings of the New York School had such a traumatic impact on their aesthetic environment. Nothing could be tamer than the late-cubist scaffolding, the tidy compartmenting of the surface that provided the formal recipes of artists like Serge Poliakoff and Maurice Estève. Then there were the "religious" abstractionists, like Alfred Manessier, with their mock stained glass; and the gestural painters, like the appalling Georges Mathieu. By the mid-'50s, most of what Paris could offer a painter was concentrated in the museums; there was little enough life...