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...hardest job for a painter in Paris is to be original; the next hardest job is to be wilder and woollier than one's associates. Oscar Dominguez achieves the No. 2 aim with distinction. His latest works, on exhibition in a Paris gallery this week, prove that when he settles down before an easel, Dominguez can be wild in a mighty workmanlike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Oscar the Oscillator | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

...read about everything worth while . . . history, economics and good fiction"; Taft "had the most legal mind I ever observed." "Some people say Wilson read himself to sleep with detective stories, but I never saw any in his rooms''; Harding read "anything that came along. The wilder and woollier it was, the better. . . ." Coolidge was "a heavy digger after facts"; Hoover favored technical engineering papers; Roosevelt II "collects old English and French books. He shares my love of books and naturally I think he's a great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Senior Shellback | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

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