Word: realists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political realist, Moynihan realizes that genuine integration in many Northern schools is a long way off. That realization is reflected in the U.S. Office of Education's Coleman Report. "The report shows that in educational achievement, mixing helps the lower class, but does not help the middle class," notes Moynihan. "If we are going to persuade these [white, middleclass] parents to act differently, we will have to give them a powerful incentive." Like most sociologists, Moynihan feels that young Negro boys suffer from overexposure to women-in schools as well as fatherless homes. A firm be liever in military...
...immortalize are mostly forgotten, but his views of the waterfront retain their honesty and vigor. For his backdrops, he rarely ventured farther north than Nahant or south beyond Squantum, and his finest canvases detail the disciplined confusion of the wharves in Boston's central harbor. Beyond being a realist, Salmon also had a touch of genius. He was the first painter to bring English landscape techniques to the New World; in fact, his style was much imitated by New England artists. Says Dartmouth's Wilmerding: "Anyone with an eye could see that he had the talent...
...When he died last week at the age of 84, in the Washington Square studio where he had lived for the past 54 years, he left a half-century-long portrait of the workaday face of America. He had captured it with all the homely honesty of a foursquare realist-but in the lambent light of a brooding romantic who saw beauty in the humblest barber pole...
Died. Edward Hopper, 84, dean of U.S. realist painters; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...them, Carole Adams, is in the infirmary. We have received a great deal of tangible support -- a generally favorable press. TV and radio coverage, supporting telegrams from NSA and the University of Buffalo, several encouraging letters and cards, flowers from unknown supporters cartons of cigarettes and Realist reprints for our amusement...