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More Hit & Run. As the Cardinals wound up their spring-training barnstorming tour,*** some of the evidence was in on the new Stanky regime. Always the realist, Stanky knew that he could not remake a team of veterans and rookies into the old Gashouse image. Veterans like Outfielder Enos Slaughter, Second Baseman Red Schoendienst and Third Baseman Billy Johnson already play the game to the hilt. Stan ("The Man") Musial, baseball's best, summed up the new Cardinal feeling: "We'll be more aggressive . . . We'll play more hit & run ... We'll steal more...
Kandinsky's abstractions never fell into showoff coldness. There was passion enough in his pictures to overwhelm even so anti-abstract a social-realist painter as Mexico's Diego Rivera. "I know of nothing more real than the painting of Kandinsky," Rivera once wrote, "not anything more true and nothing more beautiful. A painting of Kandinsky gives no image of earthly life-it is life itself...
...smuggling and murder. He exposes Dyar's hungry soul to every temptation except the temptation to take a brace. In this way, Bowles takes most of the wind out of his own sails. The Devil likes to be given his due, but he is too much of a realist to ask for a walkover...
...says. "I could live very well without it. I have no ambition. I've never had the message. I'm afraid that all my life I've needed a push and never done things for myself." She recalls that Noel Coward recently described her as a realist and a clown: "He's right. Of course, I never show my clown side to the public. It doesn't go with the other thing I advertise...
Zurbaran was best at such stone-cold, stone-solid figure pieces as the Monk. A somber ascetic, the 17th Century Spaniard never strayed from his native land or from his passionately simple, sculptural style. Like Velasquez, he was a realist who painted only from models, but while Velasquez was concerned chiefly with color, Zurbaran cared only for form...