Word: richer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...history have struck a happier balance with their age or won richer rewards in return than Flemish Artist Peter Paul Rubens, master of Europe's baroque style at its 17th century peak. A staunch Roman Catholic, unquestioning Royalist, shrewd businessman, Rubens was both a spectacularly successful diplomat, the trusted adviser of kings, and the most sought-after painter of his day, whose masterpieces today are treasured by every major museum of Europe. In an exhibition of his oil sketches and drawings, collected by Harvard's Fogg Museum and Manhattan's Pierpont Morgan Library and on display...
When Paul Richer, 21, walked into the dark brick junior high school in little (pop. 962) Riceville, Iowa last fall, he intended to throw everything he had into this first teaching job. A burly man with a Phi Beta Kappa key from the State University of Iowa, he had long wanted to teach. He had an irrepressible enthusiasm for literature and a head full of ideas on how to put his enthusiasm across. But no sooner had he completed his first few weeks than Paul Richer became the most controversial figure in town...
...lessons. In class he had a knack for arousing the interest of the most unlikely pupils. One day he gave a farm boy who had always hated poetry a piece of paper and said, "Now, imagine you are seated at the plow. What do you see?" The result, says Richer, "was a truly beautiful poem. Every one of those kids was learning to think for himself. I thought that that was my job." Even Bein' God. Had he been willing to stick closer to grammar and spelling, all might have gone well for Richer. But he detested the regulation...
...trip to Japan four years ago, he began working again in the style of his earlier abstractions. Studying Japanese art and Oriental philosophy, he found a strength and "interior realism" that he felt was the missing element in his Paris paintings. The result, as shown last week, is a richer, more serene art, with formal,' soaring movements and pure color that suggest visualized orchestral music...
...surface, the issues seemed simple. Boston Tech was young and poor, but independent and thriving educationally, while the Harvard engineering school was older and richer, but had an insecure status within the University and was apparently unable to attract enough students to justify its own existence...