Word: rusticating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...base for their characteristic cloth headpieces, to an intricately executed sketch by Artist-Author Giorgio Vasari (Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects) of a battle scene to be reproduced in epic proportions in a Florentine palace. In subject, the galaxy includes saints and schoolboys, allegories and rustic landscapes, anatomical studies and exquisite faces...
...Many of the drawings are rooted in time through subject and costume. But some are amazingly modern, such as the watercolor of a gate near a 17th century Roman villa that is so filled with blinding light that its details are seen as in an overexposed photograph. It is rustic yet somehow eerie, the perfect expression of Artist Salvator Rosa, who confessed himself in search of an "extravagant mixture of the horrid and of the domestic, of the plain and of the precipice," which artists centuries later are still seeking...
...special dignity that accrues to old men who have long exercised power in causes greater than their own ambitions. Both are gruff on the surface, kind underneath. They were country boys, raised on farms, and they still, whenever they can get out of Washington, instinctively head for rustic serenity-the Rayburn cattle ranch near Bonham, Texas or the Smith dairy farm near Broad Run, Va. They grew up, pinched by poverty, in a South still seething with Civil War hatreds and sunk in economic misery...
Will Rogers, the country-boy conscience of the '20s and early '30s, who insisted that "there is no credit in being a comedian when you have the whole government working for you," could be biting, but most of the time he was jovially rustic where Sahl is urban and hip. Rogers was lovable, and even his fans do not claim that quality for Sahl. But in his own way, Sahl has taken his place on the center line of the Ward-Dooley-Rogers tradition. The Depression and war years produced only minor political satire. Among comedians, Bob Hope...
When Brinkley drifted to tiny Milford, Kansas in 1917, his assets were a sheepskin from the Eclectic Medical University of Kansas City (a diploma mill), a membership in the Masons, and a Saxon Six automobile. Then a rustic came to Brinkley with the complaint that he was a "flat tire," sexually inert. Somehow, Brinkley hit on the idea of implanting a fragment of goat gonad in the old fellow's testicles. He did, and before long the patient had recuperated to the extent that he was able to sire a healthy son-a lad named, appropriately enough, Billy...