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...difficult to believe that this time Picasso had tried very hard. To help reporters puzzle out the meaning of the big, empty mural, Director Salles explained, "The painting represents the victory of forces of light and peace over those of evil and death. The skeleton-like figure [center] with black wings is falling through an infinity of blue, like the fall of Icarus, while a female form [left] rises majestically, white and radiant. On the right side of the painting, the three brown figures in repose are the motionless spectators of the drama; they symbolize humanity at peace, contemplating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Skeleton for UNESCO | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

Watching the huge trucks and big 'dozers revving their engines, we envisaged progress coming to Harvard. We saw the spectre of Mem Hall, reduced to its skeleton, spotlighted, awaiting execution. The crowd roared as the cables tightened. No time for sentiment, this...

Author: By Robert H. Neuman, | Title: This Ol' House | 11/26/1957 | See Source »

Whipple, moreover, was in Washington for an IGY conference when the Russian satellite was launched. Hynek was at home when he first heard a news report of the event, but he quickly assembled a skeleton crew of Smithsonian staff-members and began to alert the hundred or more Moonwatch stations from the Garden St. office...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss, | Title: Smithsonian Astronomers Keep Hectic Pace | 11/9/1957 | See Source »

Grown fleshless as the skeleton...

Author: By Alfred FRIENDLY Jr., | Title: The Atlantic | 11/9/1957 | See Source »

...from the path marked out by the almighty Party. Such authors had an audience, of course, because it was compulsory for us to study the cliches they wrote, but they had no followers. Indeed, all branches of communist art lose themselves in a blind alley. Art is a decaying skeleton, kept from complete disintegration only by the power of the state.5Hungarian students demonstrate against brutality of puppet regime after temporary victory in Budapest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Marxist Schools Analyzed | 10/26/1957 | See Source »

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