Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...symbol of the decline of the Paris School, the most important creative art center since the Renaissance. Just compare the daring, but successful, lyrical vitality of his 1911-1914 pictures with the decorative boudoir puffs and frills of his post-World War II efforts. The world innovative center for Western art shifted in the 1940s to New York under the influence of noted refugee painters from Europe, such as Mondriaan, Leger and Matta...
...DESPRES Professor of Anthropology Western Reserve University Cleveland...
...Cuban exile who was in Guatemala during the preparation for the invasion. The night we got notice of the tragic defeat I could sense what you point out: "It was a chance, perhaps never to return, to dispose of the single Communist regime in the Western Hemisphere." The late President had several really amateur advisers. I don't blame either the Pentagon or the CIA. I blame the naive counselors like Schlesinger for the fateful mistake that has kept my country under Soviet rule...
...official news agency, exchanges news in New York with A.P. and U.P.I., and from time to time Russian newsmen drop in to observe U.S. wire-service operations. All told, there are some 160 Russian correspondents overseas; in many of the underdeveloped nations of Africa and Asia, they outnumber their Western counterparts, and they often scoop the West on stories in these areas. "There are plenty of capable newsmen waiting for someone to open the door," says a Columbia University Kremlinologist who monitors the Soviet press...
...home, he left for Moscow in 1920 to turn his attention to the theater, painting murals for Moscow's Kamerny State Jewish Theater and designing sets and costumes for adaptations of Sholom Aleichem's satirical tales. But his sets for Synge's Playboy of the Western World, commingling geometry, Hebrew characters and dislocated figures in iconographic puzzles, were rejected as not naturalistic enough by the Moscow Art Theater. And so, having rejected all the isms of Paris, Chagall found himself rejected by Communism. In 1922, Chagall left Russia with $20, clad in khaki trousers provided by Hoover...