Word: penniless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Penniless and stateless at the end of the war, Elmyr returned to Paris for some serious painting. In 1946, an English friend visited his studio and mistook one of his unsigned sketches for a Picasso. Fancying herself a bit of an expert, she offered to buy it. "Well, why not?" said Elmyr...
Fallen Among Fabians. As Shaw tells it, his socialist faith began as a personal thing - a bitterness against a class system that he felt at the patched seat of his pants. He writes of his Dublin boyhood as that of "a penniless snob." But if his poverty denied him the class privilege of a university education, it gave him great freedom of mind. He could be depended upon to rush in where pedants feared to tread. At the drop of a bourgeois top hat, he would discourse on Moses or municipal drains, on Marx or Michelangelo. Browbeating the Church...
...Gathered penniless in New York in the politically volatile 1930s, artists boned up like magpies on a dozen different artistic idioms, haunting museums and devouring books when not studying at the Art Students League. Arshile Gorky, the Armenian refugee, was initially a devotee of Ingres, Léger, Matisse, Cézanne and Kandinsky. Robert Motherwell drew much of his inspiration from Matisse. De Kooning, the Dutch immigrant, was closer to Cubism and de Stijl; Pollock, the shy Westerner, studied under Thomas Hart Benton, and was influenced by Mexico's David Alfaro Siqueiros and José Clemente Orozco. They...
...Outcasts (Monday, 9-10 p.m.). Something new gallops across the TV sagebrush: a pair of racially integrated bounty hunters. In this post-Civil War oater, Don Murray is a penniless former slave owner and Otis Young is a quick-witted former slave. No Uncle Tom, Young can barely stand the sight of his erstwhile oppressor. Since straight-shooting hands are hard to find, he takes Murray on as a temporary sidekick. Whitey does not cotton to the setup either, and the two bristle at each other even as they foil a gold heist. A mutually respectful, but hostile, black-white...
...well-to-do prisoners are ever executed. "During my experience as Governor of Ohio," testified Michael V. DiSalle, now chairman of the National Committee to Abolish the Federal Death Penalty, "I found that the men in death row had one thing in common: they were penniless." In his four years as Governor, DiSalle passed final judgment on twelve men, six of whom went to the chair. The burden of their deaths, which still weighs on him, helps to explain the fall-off in the number of executions. For while judges and juries continue to sentence men to death...