Word: purist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nonobjective" art is the purist's name for abstract art in which no trace of actuality remains. A cubist breakdown of the statutory cubist wine bottle and guitar would not qualify. Solomon Guggenheim had grown grey in philanthropy and the copper business before he fell for his first nonobjective painting about eleven years ago. Since then he has accumulated 726 of them, the world's biggest private collection. His guide and friend in non-objectivity has been a fortyish, fervent lady artist, the Baroness Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen...
...ACCEPT THIS NOMINATION. With Statesman Stimson thus eliminating himself, the way was open for the League Assembly to elect a jurist against whom it could not well be argued that he was "political" and narrowly represented his country's interests on the World Court bench. Last week purist Geneva internationalists and League Secretariat members were immensely pleased when a Man from Missouri, Dr. Manley Ottmer Hudson, 50, a graduate of William Jewell College at Liberty, Mo. and of Harvard Law School, was elected to succeed as a Judge of the World Court onetime U. S. Secretary of State Frank...
...General Motors Corp., this gruff Scot roared: "I have no objection at all to selling arms to both sides-I am not a purist in these matters...
...proof of the years he has devoted to the study of Beethoven. Peak performance last week was the abused Appassionata, a flawless realization of the composer at his stormiest which had all the more meaning because it never went wild. Because encores destroy the balance of his programs, this purist refuses to play them, just as he refuses to waste his time on frothy, mediocre music. Most pianists would be vastly impressed by such unanimous acclaim as his playing has received lately. But last week Schnabel was skeptical, saying, "I am not sure that it's good...
...Barnard College, the Beethoven Association, Cooper Union, many a private owner and John D. Rockefeller's picture-postcard Williamsburg, Va. Miss Van Buren has a notable collection of her own including a chest (set of six) of viols, one of which was owned by Handel. A thoroughgoing purist in restoring instruments, she also makes reproductions, would like nothing better than to see oldtime, easily playable instruments placed in a widespread number of homes...