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Word: themes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Young America" show, is displaying 121 works by 30 artists under 35; the Museum of Modern Art, in its "Recent American Acquisitions," includes works by some two dozen younger painters; the Jewish Museum will open its first younger-artist group show with 58 works by 23 artists developing the theme, "The New York School-Second Generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Younger Generation | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

...wider sense of communication." Now hitting his stride. Muller appears in all three museum shows. His Of This Time, Of That Place (opposite) at the Whitney is a large-scale (4 ft. by 8 ft.) canvas with looming white nudes set against a luxuriant patchwork landscape that draws its theme from Goethe's Erlk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Younger Generation | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

After remarking on the low intellectual quality of his audience, Capp explained his technique: "I always write to people before I disembowel them." He says that one of the disemboweled, Liberace, sent him a Valentine which thrilled him. But Capp's main theme, however, was fluoridation, which he subtly orchestrated throughout the evening...

Author: By Bryce E. Nelson, | Title: Capp on Politics Enlivens Forum; Vellucci Praised | 3/9/1957 | See Source »

...like it-since 30 years, she doesn't like it"). At Lanvin-Castillo, the place where Parisiennes used to go if they wanted to be sure they would not be mistaken for Americans, Designer Antonio Castillo made a hit last month with 180 variations on an Oriental theme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Dictator by Demand | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...their senses, conceded that for work of this kind, nothing was handier than an earthquake. "There is no divine visitation." he wrote with a connoisseur's relish, "which is likely to have so general an influence upon sinners." Methodism's Founder Wesley thus neatly expressed the theme of a curious and scholarly account of the great Lisbon earthquake, in which Sir Thomas D. (for Downing) Kendrick now traces the long-forgotten relation between sin and seismology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Time of Trembles | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

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