Word: starless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gary Rickson (b. 1942), president of the Boston Negro Artists Association, also emphasizes the message aspect of art. His "Somebody's Upstairs in the Attic" is an allegory, in which we see a brick with 'Black Power' lettered on it, a starless American flag, a star-and-crescent, and other symbols. He also has a surrealistic, almost symmetrical oil called "Nature vs. Nature...
...PEACE (1964): Sooner or later all the people ot the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality. This is why right temporarily defeated is stronger than evil triumphant...
...whenever his captain heads for shore, particularly in one farfetched episode in which Martinus beds down with the wife of a dead shipmate. But De Hartog's descriptions of prowling U-boats and fear-swept sea combat are adroit and chilling, as vivid as Very-lights on a starless night...
Coach Cooney Welland has 11 letterman returning, led by defenseman captain Bobby Clark and junior goali Bill Fitzsimmons, but last year's performances won little more than letters for this starless group. Right wingers Pete Waldlinger and Dennis McCullough, both juniors, led the team in goals, but their totals of nine apiece is more a mark to build upon than brag about...
...abiding faith in America and an audacious faith in the future of mankind. I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life which surrounds him. I refuse to ac cept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daylight of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality...