Word: realistically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Liberal Realist. Crandall is an arbiter as well as an oracle. Many callers attack earlier callers. One last week referred to another as "that insignificant punk with the molecule brain." Crandall tries, usually with success, to filter out the emotion and get the people on the other end of the wire to come to terms with themselves and say what they really think. "Once you get past that facade," he says, "you get to the real honest human being who is bugged by something, and you must help him see what it really is that is bugging...
ALAN LOWNDES-Osborne, 965A Madison Ave. at 75th. The paintings of an English realist making his U.S. debut tell a tragic story of man and nature. His many windows speak of emptiness, his street scenes of dreary sameness, and his people are dull blotches in a vivid-hued environment that threatens to swallow them. Through...
...Kansas City, Mo., Thomas Hart Benton was as crusty as ever. His paintings have never sold better, for which he gave a true realist's explanation: "Everybody figures they ought to go out and get a Benton now because the old codger is going to be out of production before long." But a warm and happy birthday party, thrown by his admirers, finally produced an infinitesimal crack in the crust. Said the painter: "This is the kind of thing that comes to you when you've outlived your critics...
...impatient brush of a young Italian new realist whips enamel paint around melanges of brown wrapping paper and canvas, laying waste a work of art with the gusto of a wild wind assailing a wall plastered with posters. Through...
...conceived and fought monumental battles with huge armies, and like those bygone warriors, he viewed his times and his own acts as decisive in history. His triumphs and his failures often thrust him into whirlwinds of international controversy. He generated stubborn loyalties and intense hatreds. He was a realist who by the strength of his personality succeeded in making himself larger than life. He was a master of the imperial gesture, the meaningful touch that lent grandeur and drama to his image. His nation bestowed on him the Medal of Honor and 20 other decorations for gallantry and extraordinary valor...