Word: rusticating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shade of T'ung Trees, which measures nine feet tall. Done in a freer, bolder style, it is a resounding answer to his critics and a masterpiece of brush technique. ¶ Shen Chou, who inherited the Literary Man's Painting tradition, played the role of rustic philosopher, ignoring the ceremonial elegance of court life. Near the center of the new wen-jen hua movement which he founded, Painter Shen Chou retired to his garden pavilion. He depicted his ideal life in such paintings as Sitting Up at Night, wrote that he had achieved the ideal state with...
...Roger and Ida marry, and it turns out that she is being consumed by something more than love's fever-a mortal case of TB. A novel as sod-bitten and fate-haunted as Hardy's The Return of the Native thus veers towards a kind of rustic Camille. It is a token of the solidity of Author Nicholson's character-building that he can still make Ida's death moving without being sentimental, and Roger's reconciliation with Louisa fitting and proper...
...Country and Yale in the end do well by all three. At one time it appears as if the only letters McGough and Baxter are likely to win in life are four-letter ones, but Baxter (like Author Ham) becomes an insurance salesman and McGough winds up amid semi-rustic bliss in Westport, Conn. There is a suitable epitaph on the abortive revolt of the generation of the '30s when the once-terrible McGough asks: "You want to see our cow, Baxter?'' Where are the sledge hammers of yesteryear...
They were double men, harking back nostalgically to the rustic, roughhewn virtues of the Romans who fought the Punic Wars, while themselves breathing the elegant, enervating and sometimes fetid air of imperial Rome. They tended to polish more than to publish. Only Vergil attempted the epic, and he thought so poorly of The Aeneid that on his deathbed he asked to destroy the manuscript. Catullus, Propertius and Tibullus were ravaged by hard-boiled mistresses, and their poems tell of virtually the only battle they ever fought-the war between the sexes. They knew or sensed that their culture...
Much of the credit goes to Colgate Salisbury who played the title role of the father. Unlike most of the cast, Salisbury understood that a simple Italian peasant need not be stupid to be rustic. Tom Gervasi, as his son, was properly whining and greedy as the boy who gave away a man's life for a gold watch. Steve Aaron gave a surprisingly believable rendition of the Padre who advises Falcone that God alone should punish...