Word: realistically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were by their own request hors concours. After that, the judges-British Art Expert Douglas Cooper, Andrew Ritchie, director of the Yale University Art Gallery, and Peter Wilson, chairman of Sotheby's, the London art auctioneers-did their heroic, committee-like best. One prize went to the immaculate realist Alex Colville, like Beaverbrook a native of New Brunswick, partly because-as one judge put it-"we all felt one Canadian ought to be chosen as a matter of courtesy...
Best known among the other winners were Sam Francis, who lofts petals of color on huge expanses of canvas, and Ivan Albright, painter of meticulous magic-realist works. Kenzo Okada won with his serenely pale abstract, Posterity, which blends European and Oriental idioms. Least appealing of the prizewinners were Ennio Morlotti's garishly colored, gouged abstract called Cactus and Paolo Vallorz' standing nude, a throwback to the Art Students League life class...
...suck up all the action in sight and then spew it violently into the viewer's face. But Kurosawa is far more than a master of movement. He is an ironist who knows how to pity. He is a moralist with a sense of humor. He is a realist who curses the darkness-and then lights a blowtorch...
...Reischauer sees himself as a scholar, a scholar gone government, but a scholar nonetheless. This certainly doesn't make him a member of some isolated academic world; in fact, he sees little inherent difference between a professor and a government official. "If a scholar isn't enough of a realist to be able to serve in the government, he isn't much of a scholar. And if an official doesn't have enough perspective, he won't be much of an official...
Charging that this kind of talk proves that the motive for the strike has little to do with dollars and cents, Ho said he would hold out against the unions for six months if necessary. But at week's end Realist Ho was back at the bargaining table with the unions just in case a quick settlement was possible...