Word: wanderluster
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...portraiture at Manhattan's Art Students League-and wishing he were out of doors. He has painted open-air pictures ever since. During World War II. Pleissner painted pictures of Aleutian bases for the Air Force and, later, of the Normandy breakthrough for LIFE, and developed the wanderlust that goads him today. Most of the watercolors in this week's show were first sketched on a recent tour of France...
...Clinic's most striking feature is its decoration. In this cold setting of stucco walls is a collection of oriental art more fitting for a museum than a scientific laboratory. The spoils of wanderlust have filled almost every room with exotic gifts. An undergraduate who stopped at the wreck of the old Parker House after its demolition in 1926, brought in he first decoration, a silver an gold cornice above the library's front window. One student donated two Alaskan gods sculptured in a style combining prehistoric and ultra-modern art. They stare at each other across the library...
Hollywood, troubled by 3-dementia and TV tremens, has another ailment: wanderlust. In "the film capital of the world," only 27 pictures were in production last week (as against 33 a year ago). But there were 48 rolling in Italy and 13 in Mexico. "The industry," said the A.F.L.'s Hollywood Film Council, "is committing suicide by letting production go abroad...
...WORLD FOR NELLIE (38 pp.)-Rowland Emett-Harcourt, Brace ($2). A fussy, ramshackle British train with a bad case" of wanderlust spins off to America as a plane, masquerades a while as a riverboat, and returns as a submarine, fueled solely by the remarkable comic imagination of one of Punch's most inventive contributors...
Alvin Johnson never held himself out as a philosopher, but he did become a scholar-with a spectacular sort of wanderlust that eventually made him famous. A kindly, ruddy-faced man who wandered from medicine to the classics to economics, he taught at eight universities, founded a school, finally became one of U.S. education's elder statesmen. By last week, as he published his autobiography at 77 (Pioneer's Progress; Viking Press, $5), he could justly make the claim: "I possessed an educational green thumb. Intellectual plants grew under my hand...