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Word: semi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paintings show the white light and black-clad poor of Spain and Italy with tenderness if not much power. Cubism is perhaps her stumbling block; one can hardly see the people for the planes. But her semi-abstract sculptures come to terms with the wood in witty and sensuous ways. Woman and Child (see cut), hunched forms of a mother and her papoose, seem in a separate world, somewhere between the nature of a tree trunk and that of people. Why did she quit business for art? Says she, elliptically: "I like putting butter on turkeys. I like peeling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Desk Set | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

Finally, at about 7:30, the tables are cleared and put away, and the chairs are arranged in a vague semi-circle. One of the Scholars sits facing the group, reads a section or two from his paper--each one is working on a project of considerable length--and is then subjected to the often fierce criticism of the others present. Immediately following, the process is repeated...

Author: By Walter L. Goldfrank, | Title: The Scholars of the House Program at Yale: Praise From the Faculty, Student Criticism | 11/22/1958 | See Source »

...delighted that this distinguished statesman accepted our invitation," said Owen. "During his stay, Winthrop will hold at least one evening meeting for members of the House, and perhaps a semi-public forum on foreign policy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bowles to Visit Winthrop House For Three Days This December | 11/21/1958 | See Source »

...that part of the bottom of the barrel in which Harry Hope has set up his bar. The tormented residents of the bar cannot--we are told some dozen times--sink any lower. Each of them possesses nothing but a cherished, vain dream and the expectation of the semi-annual binge financed by the generous Hickey...

Author: By Daniel Field, | Title: The Iceman Cometh | 11/13/1958 | See Source »

...COLLEGE GIRL. Resident of Boston, available Friday or Sat. eves., to chatter inconsequentially to semi-invalid man with poor eyesight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 10, 1958 | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

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