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...project, in the '305, that gave Levine his first real chance to paint. He took a studio back in Boston's soot-filmed slums and began working with the tense brush strokes and smoldering colors of the expressionists he most admired: Rouault, Soutine, Kokoschka...
...green park, other new office buildings rising on the Triangle's point. It was a vision of a city cleared of drab relics of half a century, cured of its traffic congestions, freed of the pollution of its rivers and the poison of its soot-heavy air, a city better housed. The hammering of the pile driver was the nervous pulse of a run-down old Pittsburgh acquiring a new life...
They had also left the city their monuments to culture. There stood Andrew Carnegie's blackened sandstone museum, whose bilious, soot-streaked walls were hung with a weird jumble of oil paintings, whose cavernous halls housed Diplodocus carnegiei ("Dippy," the dinosaur) brought from a Wyoming fossil dump. Beside a ravine which belched forth the smoke of locomotives perched the Carnegie Institute. Soaring into the city's grey sky was the University of Pittsburgh's Cathedral of Learning-42 stories of classrooms and offices piled one on top of another...
...Soot filled every pore, inflamed the eyes, lodged in the scrotum and caused the horrid "sooty-wart" or "chimney sweeper's cancer." Many boys were made consumptive by the lack of food, the damp cellars where they slept on soot-bags, and the chill of early mornings when they tramped the streets crying, "Sweep for the soot O! Sweeeup!" at the top of their poor, frayed lungs...
...Boys Is Wery Obstinit." Falls, the cruelty of masters, and the great weight of the soot-bags broke the limbs and bent the backs of almost all. The most dreaded hazard of the occupation was suffocation, if a fall of soot caught a boy at an awkward turning of a flue...