Word: lithuanian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cover-story once or twice, then left. As he would have put it, "There's no future in it." I can see him now, stumbling down some New York sidewalk in a second-hand overcoat. Then one windy November day, he would have been corrupted by a tiny, lithping Lithuanian and become "Trout Fishing American." He would have become a slick, glossy Layman-Informer. It's not a pretty story...
...most celebrated novel was The Jungle, published in 1906, which told the harrowing story of a Lithuanian immigrant worker in Chicago's meat-packing industry. Though Sinclair's main intention was to dramatize the plight of a helpless proletarian, he described the then prevalent filth and brutality of the industry in shockingly graphic terms. The Jungle, turned down by five publishers before Doubleday, Page & Co. accepted it, was front-page news and an instant bestseller. Meat sales slumped throughout the U.S. Within months, Congress passed the nation's first pure-foods law and required more than cursory...
...Destruction. Soutine had a more difficult time finding his own style than did his fellow refugees from Russian ghetto life, who once they had arrived in Paris, turned toward cubism, like Jacques Lipchitz, or, like Chagall, romanticized the shtetl folklore with fiddlers on the roof. At the time that Lithuanian-born Soutine went to Ceret, he was still in his 20s, all but unknown. There he embarked on a series of extraordinarily dislocated mountain views, with houses and trees piled like limp wads of anthropomorphic soil...
Like many of his own students, Sam Gould represents the first generation of his family to seek and get a college degree. He grew up in Connecticut's Housatonic valley, where his Lithuanian-born father was a wholesaler of paper, twine and groceries in the small towns of Ansonia and Shelton. It was not a wealthy family, and Sam worked at odd jobs to save money for college-only to discover that his father, in hopes of doubling the investment, had lost it all on a stock-market fling...
...Shahn, a Lithuanian-born American painter, is noted for drawing and other graphic techniques. He is best known, however, for his prolific murals in U.S. public buildings. During 1957-58, he gave his Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard on the education and responsibilities of artists (published as "The Shape of Content...