Word: posterity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More to Come. Then there was 37-year-old Communist Renato Guttuso. His painting of a peasant wood chopper being shot in the back gave a broad hint of why Guttuso's Italian fellow Communists now object to his work. The poster-bright colors and the shapes which looked as if they had been hacked out by a hoe were reminiscent of Comrade Picasso's art, but like Picasso's they deviated from the "realism" the party presently admires. At the opposite extreme was 52-year-old Antonio Donghi's meticulous The Hunter, which...
...years, Holt never altered his methods, nor changed his ways. He was always the amiable autocrat who collected antiques, breakfasted in his four-poster bed (George Washington had slept there), was forever popping into classrooms to see how things were going. Last week, as he said farewell, he delivered an autocrat's final warning: "If the Rollins faculty reverts to the lecture and recitation system with their inevitable grades and examinations, all of which tend to make the professor a detective and the student a bluffer, then you may hear the creaking sound as I turn over...
...Turkish poster sneered at Turkey's onetime Greek subjects: "You can all throw yourselves from the Acropolis rock, but you cannot beat those who were your masters for over 500 years...
...dying days of 1944, men maimed and crippled by World War II were already being discharged from U.S. service hospitals and returned to civilian life; a war-loan poster bloomed in the land, showing a soldier with empty sleeve holding a little girl in his good...
Walking down Cleveland's busy Euclid Avenue, Salesman George Kruger saw the poster and was moved to anger, not pity. Says Kruger: "That well-meaning poster destroyed a lot of dignity. It was asking for sympathy-one thing an amputee gets and doesn't want." Kruger knew what he was talking about; at 13 he had lost his right arm in a mine accident. The poster crystallized his determination to form a self-help organization for amputees...