Word: rousseau
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...Wynn. "It rankles every damn cop in the country when they hear those farfetched stories about crime," Wynn said to Webb. "Why don't you do a real story about policemen?" Wynn forgot the conversation in an hour. But three weeks later Webb arrived with Radio Producer Bill Rousseau at the Los Angeles police academy, where Wynn was taking a refresher course in criminal law and rules of evidence. Webb asked to ride on calls with Wynn and his partner, Detective Vance Brasher. They agreed...
...left sacks of coffee behind, and an enterprising Polish defender of Christendom hastened to beat his sword into a percolator by grabbing the coffee and opening the first of hundreds of Viennese coffeehouses. Charles II of England called coffeehouses "seminaries of sedition," and in France they were just that. Rousseau, Voltaire, Robespierre, Marat and Danton all frequented coffeehouses, and from one of them, the attack on the Bastille was launched. William Penn loved the stuff so that he paid $4.68 a Ib. for it. Upton Sinclair, on the other hand, hated coffee SO deeply that when Harry (Tramping on Life...
...quantity and quality of what the Met had to show was impressive, so was the way it was shown. Metropolitan Curator of Paintings Theodore Rousseau Jr. had arranged the pictures in chronological order rather than by nationalities, so that the gallerygoer got, in addition to the pleasure of seeing great art, an easy-to-take education in the history of European painting...
Windowed Nook. Curator Rousseau, who believes that "a museum should be essentially a theater where a visitor can find delight and entertainment," had done everything possible to make the galleries a refreshing place in which to wander and look. In the larger galleries, unobtrusive labels over each painting gave the name of the artist, so that it was no longer necessary to squint closely at a picture to see who did it. Conveniently placed in the chronological order of the galleries was a windowed nook. There gallerygoers may rest on comfortable couches, smoke and contemplate either Central Park...
Realism Without Exactitude. Ever since Rousseau's sophisticated friends-Picasso, Braque & Co.-began promoting him at the turn of the century, primitive art has been a subject of controversy. In the first place, few can agree on just what the word is meant to cover. Two things it always stands for are an untrained hand and a childlike eye. Primitives are would-be realists whose charm depends on their very inability to paint photographically accurate pictures. Most of them have trouble with figures (as does Grandma) and make a habit of cluttering their canvases with niggling details (as Grandma...