Word: sculptor
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...Westhoff, a handsome young sculptress. Suddenly the poet's constitutional melancholy grew acute. He had discovered that he could not keep a wife and a muse at the same time. The wife graciously bowed out; Rilke went off to Paris, where in 1905 he became private secretary to Sculptor Auguste Rodin...
...soap-opera psychology with a very poor dramatic situation. Filmed in the Campagna region outside of Rome, the plot leans heavily on the "rapture" of Roman ruins in the moonlight and pays little attention to its main theme--the romance and disillusionment of a young girl and a sculptor. Nearly every emotional sequence in the film is hackneyed and bears the imperfections of what it plagarized from American melodrama...
...scene: ". . . The Hitler Youth rising out of the ruins . . . Here they are as one remembers them in 1933 -the same stance and gestures when the band plays, the same air of importance, the same plastic faces, empty and somehow piteous, waiting to be molded into anything the master sculptor decides...
...with musical talent can play in the orchestra or sing in the glee club with the best professional direction, so a student should be able to do water colors or model with the aid of really competent guidance. A studio open to all students with a professional painter or sculptor in charge is a desirable...
...Livingston Biddle Jr., 31, of the Main Line's very own Biddies, a great-great-grandson of Banker Nicholas ("The Old Nick") Biddle, a cousin of onetime Attorney General Francis Biddle and of Sculptor George Biddle, and the author of Main Line, a new novel that attempts to explain the society which produced...