Word: val
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Families & Friends. From the mill gates, the strike's acid corrosion spread all over town. Fiery Val Bjarnason, U.T.W.'s Ontario director, organized a march on the home of Mayor William England to demand the removal of the provincial police. The mayor, whose own daughter had marched in the strikers' picket line, went to the hospital to rest his shattered nerves...
Elliott Roosevelt and his wife, Actress Faye Emerson, were again determined to "make Christians out of Christmas tree dealers." Last year they undercut upstate New York dealers by selling 20,000 trees from their Val-Kill farm at $1 each. This month, with the price up from 75? to 95? apiece, they will take 50,000 trees to Manhattan, where tree dealers have never spared the customer...
Degas' strong point, Valéry thought, was his "taste, a quality rather uncommon among artists." His taste made him as critical of his own work as he was of his critics; when people praised him he laughed in their faces. "He could not conceive of an artist seeing one of his paintings after a lapse of time without wanting to work on it again. Occasionally he would even carry off paintings that had hung for a long time on the walls of friends' rooms, taking them back to his lair, from which they rarely reappeared...
Seizing the Grimaces. His work does not sing, says Valéry flatly. "Grace and obvious poetry were not his objective." In his drawings, he seemed almost wholly concerned with the truth of what he saw. "His dancers and laundresses were seized in professionally significant attitudes which permitted him to ... analyze various poses never before of interest to painters. He abandoned the beautiful, soft, reclining bodies, the delectable Venuses and Odalisques . . . But he was intent on reconstructing the particular female animal, slave of the dance, the laundry or the street. These more or less deformed bodies he forced into unstable...
...That," Valéry adds, "is real pride, antidote to all vanity...