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...past half-century, School-of-Paris art has been an international product. Among those who contributed most to it were six expatriate Jews: Amedeo Modigliani, Jules Pascin, Ossip Zadkine, Jacques Lipchitz, Marc Chagall and Chaim Soutine. Philadelphia Art Collector Albert C. Barnes once bought 50-odd Soutines at a swoop, called him "a far more important artist than Van Gogh...
...said: "I'm in no condition to talk to anyone." In many big cities the census takers had to call in interpreters to get their information. There would probably be more difficulty next week when contingents of male enumerators observe T (for transient) night, and descend in one swoop on the inhabitants of flophouses, skid roads and missions...
...easy enough," she cabled, "to say that the Greek war is an affair of daily raids in which armed bands . . . swoop down from the cracks and crevices of a mountain . . . to sack or burn villages and carry off able-bodied men and girls to forced service in their armies. But the imagination cannot picture the desolation that this hit-and-run fighting leaves behind it . . . Everywhere, the atmosphere was heavy with suspense. In such fearful quiet must the early settlers in the West have waited the descent of the Indians...
...pretty interesting experience. I did it three times and each time a large group of students held her long after the hour, asking questions. It seemed to be the part of the lecture that she enjoyed most. Answering each question with humor, precision and the dismissal, she would then swoop down on the next waiting student with eyes a-twinkle and relish in her manner...
...They Understand? Every social system is impelled toward insanities by its own rules. The Soviet State can kill off five million peasants "for the general good" in one swoop of deluded utilitarianism. The U.S.'s oft-repeated folly of destroying food in times of desperate need is far less horrible, no less insane...