Word: semi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...semi-abstract temperas with such titles as Beatitudes, Cybernetics and Everyman...
...children behind. "When my sabots echo on the granite," he said, "I hear the sound, dull and strong, that I'm looking for in painting." Thanks to the generous mistress of a Breton pension, Gauguin painted in peace on a full belly. Restlessly driven back to Paris and semi-starvation, the man who had once speculated so brilliantly on the stock exchange was now looking for common stock in El Dorado...
...Makapan River in the Transvaal. The cave's original floor is travertine rock, on which lies more than 50 ft. of sedimentary material. In one of the layers, close to the floor, are bones of Australopithecus prometheus, a small, spry primate whom Professor Dart considers at least semi-human. Prometheus, he says, ate baboons, may have stood upright and may have possessed fire. On the other hand, apparently, he did not know how to make stone tools or weapons...
...stage sets. Since 1950 he has spent half of his time in Japan (where he married Screen Star Yoshiko Yamaguchi), concentrated on deliberately crude ceramic sculptures molded from the native earth, and modeled partly on prehistoric Japanese idols. The ceramics in last week's show were mainly semi-abstractions of figures and faces. They looked lumpish and exuberant at once-like the gingerbread cookies of a playful and somewhat inebriated baker...
...Midwest stood on the threshold of an industrial renaissance: Cleveland, a new chemical capital, was fast becoming a major auto-producing center with new semi-automatic Ford and Chevrolet factories. Along with Chicago, Detroit and other Great Lakes cities, Cleveland in 1954 could look forward to a new commercial life with the passage of the St. Lawrence Seaway Act. In a few years the new waterway would make them world-trading seaports...