Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Raphaelites; few are as funny. And no other book on Rossetti and his circle has set them so accurately in their historical context, has given to the queer, excessive things they did so clear a historical meaning. For the Pre-Raphaelites, says Gaunt, are the only optimistic rebel artists who have so far defied industrial civilization. "They would not adapt themselves to their age. Its most brilliant misfits, they invented time and place of their own in which to live and work...
...Some of them wear wrong clothes: forbidden peekaboo sweaters (bare at the waist) or transparent blouses. Many of them won't wear safe work suits, designed to prevent accidents. Most of them now wear slacks, but rebel at keeping their hair covered. Occasionally one gets scalped...
This paradoxical pronouncement that love & hate are coeternal is the profoundest wisdom that Spender has to offer-half a lifetime after he, a sensitive rebel, repudiated the numb world of 20th-Century English idealism to look for new answers to life & death...
Died. Michel Fokine, 62, Russian "father of the modern ballet," and its greatest choreographer; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. A rebel, he organized an "underground" ballet movement in the early 1900s. In & out of the good graces of the Bolsheviks, he fled to the U.S. in 1919. Famed among Fokine's early followers were Nijinsky, Mordkin, Adolph Bolm, and Pavlova, for whom he created "The Dying Swan." Among his 70-odd ballets are most of the modern school's best-known works: Les Sylphides, Le Spectre de la Rose, Petrouchka...
Whatever British cinemaudiences may think of Director Cummins' editorial viewpoint, bursts of applause, snorts of approval, murmurs of "Good show!" (the British equivalent of a rebel yell), indicate that they like his shorts...