Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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XIII. What cast his work into the shadow was the rule of King Louis XIV, who favored the glorifying allegories and myths of the classic style, abhorred naturalism and humanism. Shown a work by one of La Tour's fellow realists, Louis le Nain, the Sun King snorted: "Take those maggots away from...
When he was 16, Ferdinand Demara ran away from his home in Lawrence, Mass. to join the Cistercian monks in Rhode Island, stayed several years under monastic rule. In 1941 he enlisted in the Army, soon went over the hill, joined the Navy, became a medical corpsman. His first big bull-throwing exhibition came after he went over the hill again and turned up at the Trappist monastery near Louisville, Ky. claiming to be one Robert L. French, Ph.D. As in his later exploits, Demara had picked his identity from a university catalogue, had in some mysterious way assembled...
Under the doctrinaire rules of Soviet social realism, a painter with a hankering for nudes had to hie himself to the nearest gym, coyly disguise his subject as a bather or a physical-culture enthusiast. Last week a young Soviet art student named Ilya Glazunov finally dared break the rule, showed a nude girl (modeled by his wife) lolling in bed while her lover gazes out of the window over the city of Leningrad. The result sent the whole Soviet art world into a tizzy and crowds swarming to the Moscow gallery to see his work. At the gallery Glazunov...
After Wednesday, the CRIMSON will accept only notices which are typewritten, with the typewriter margins sat for 38 spaces. It will also be a general rule that any one notice, unless of official importance, shall not run more than twice...
...Mayor Edward J. Sullivan's manipulations with the Cambridge School Committee did not affect the city's educational system, they might be humorously reminiscent of the type of enlightened city government which used to rule around the turn of the century. It is somewhat entertaining to observe the machinations by which legal procedure can be circumvented or strategically misused in order to make desired appointments...