Word: working
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Picasso's work up to the present, the Museum of Modern Art's retrospective show omitted only his student output and his recent sculpture (whose casting for the show World War II halted). Perhaps no other artist could survive so big a one-man show so well. It ranged from an academic study of moonlight and roses, painted in 1898 when Picasso was 17 and had already set himself up as an independent artist in Barcelona, to 1939 portraits in which he practices artistic schizophrenia and tries to catch several views of a face at once...
...into a neo-classical realism, culminating in the sculptural Three Graces (see cut) of 1924. Year later his classicism came to a violent end with his painting, The Three Dancers (see cut), which left not one line of The Three Graces on another. Picasso's subsequent work has been a jumble of abstractionist, dadaist, expressionist and surrealist elements...
...Johnson as a wedding present to her, graciously accepted his aid. Other offers of help poured in, headed by $1,000 from a "nameless registered nurse." Heartened, the indomitable Mrs. Johnson made a promise. "I'm good for another 20 years. I'll continue with my work...
...indoor baseball outdoors as a good game for kids, added a tenth player (a rover). During the Depression, the U. S. army of unemployed, invading the nation's public parks, played playground ball (or kitten-ball, mushball, diamond ball-depending on the locality). As they dribbled back to work, they took their new pastime with them. Commercially sponsored teams popped up everywhere. Playground ball, renamed softball, became the No. 1 after-work diversion (as player or spectator) for U. S. office and factory workers. Last summer more than 300,000 clubs and 4,000,000 players were organized...
...replace Swope, G.E. chose big, 53-year-old Charles E. Wilson, who went to work for G.E. at 12 (wage, $3 per week), never left it, worked as office boy, shipping clerk, factory accountant, production manager, sales manager...