Word: young
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When General Lafayette romantically left France to help liberate the American colonies he brought with him a young man, Joseph Fouche, whose father was chief of police under Napoleon. The descendant of that young man is the Wilbur Burton Foshay who last week calmly agreed to the receivership of all his properties...
...Portland (Ore.) Symphony began its 19th season, its fifth under Conductor Willem Van Hoogstraten. This year's program includes ten Monday-evening concerts, five Sunday matinees, five concerts for young people. A special feature will be the presentation during the Christmas season of Handel's Messiah...
...after a few years of study with mediocre landscapists, Modigliani went to Paris where he was described as a "serious looking student who read Dante and lived alone." This solitude was short lived. Paris studios boiled with the revolutionary ideas of the Fauves (Wild Beasts)* and no intelligent young painter could ignore them. Modigliani quickly exhausted his Italian academism, delved into the cubism and Negro sculpture which preoccupied his new friends, Picasso, Matisse, Derain and Braque. He became alcoholic and consumptive, affected voluminous trousers, a gay scarf, a wide-brimmed black hat. He lived in grubby Montparnasse with one Jeanne...
Other critics explain the vogue of Modigliani as that of an essentially minor painter who led a pathetic life in a romantic quarter of Paris, died young under unusual circumstances, painted startlingly and individually if not well, was handsome...
...attempt for theatric effect. A left hand floating in an aimless way kept the instruments subdued, the colors pale. But it found no tender lyric lines to caress, wrested no deep significance from the great human comedy. Many kind critics suspended all judgment until further hearing. The stranger was young, his debut was an ordeal. But stern fellows like Oscar Thompson of the Evening Post and Richard L. Stokes of the Evening World wasted no words. For Critic Thompson it was "the most ragged and perfunctory Meister singer of many seasons...