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...Henri's studio their rendezvous. There, between amateur theatricals, impromptu concerts and Welsh-rarebit feasts, Henri preached a two-fisted approach to painting, drove home his lessons with references to the exciting "modern" works of Courbet and Manet-plus such old masters as Frans Hals, Rembrandt, Goya and Velásquez. Soon his eager listeners, including such star pupils as William Glackens, Everett Shinn. George Luks and John Sloan, were spending their off hours carrying out Henri's advice: "Forget about art and paint pictures of what interests you in life...
...unabashed realist, whose heavy-handed oils make up in impact what they lack in grace (TIME, Nov. 6, 1950). To critics who say that his plunging horses, beheaded bulls and heavily laden tables are symbols borrowed from Picasso, Lorjou angrily replies that his inspiration comes direct from El Greco, Velásquez and Goya...
...downtown Caracas, where names are given to blocks and street corners (rather than to streets), is a block known as Cipreses-to-Velásquez. There one day last week, during the early-morning bustle of market-bound housewives, the political police closed in on the grill-windowed colonial house numbered 12/1. After a thundering fusillade, the cops charged upstairs and captured Alberto Carnevali, 36, commander of the underground resistance to Venezuela's provisional President, Colonel Marcos...
...been a boon to Harvard. He has brought it maturity, seriousness of purpose, and greater diversity. As it begins to "return to normaley" the College should strive to retain for future classes those elements which have reduced the crowding and the chow lines of the past year to the vel of of petty grievances...
...Fidel Velázquez, a sincere and able democrat, replaced exotic, eloquent, brilliant Vincente Lombardo Toledano (a school mate of the President's who still calls him by his first name) as secretary of Mexico's most powerful trade-union alliance (the C.T.M.). Under Velázquez the C.T.M. has been purged of Lombardo's Stalinist influence...