Word: 1900s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Child." Cobina got her first good look at the century on her sheep-raising family's "several enormous ranches as big as counties, in the state of Oregon." There, in the early 1900s, as a poor little rich girl named Elaine Cobb, she grew up in the silence of the eternal hills. When the silence got on her nerves, she would holler-and she hollered so vigorously that her family allowed her to go off to Europe with a maiden aunt to have her voice trained...
Critics and public alike gave them the horselaugh. The art fashion of the 1900s was as opposed to realism as it is today. Now, abstractions are the rage; then, art in the U.S. was spelled with a capital A and stood for dreamy, academic idealizations. The lively glimpses of real people, places and things that Sloan and his friends painted struck art lovers as ugly. The group was scornfully dubbed "The Ashcan School...
Charlie Dawes never studied composition ("My parents were afraid I might become a musician"), but he managed to work up one piece for violin called Melody in A Major, which Fritz Kreisler started playing, made into a concert hit in the early 1900s. In the '40s, Dawes' Melody, as the trade called it, was picked up and recorded, swing-style, by Tommy Dorsey and a few other bandleaders. But like most pop recordings, it soon lost its hold, and finally disappeared from the record catalogues...
Died. John Sloan, 80, dean of U.S. artists; of cancer; in Hanover, N.H. When he began painting in the 1900s, Sloan's earthy Manhattan neighborhood scenes were thought coarse and ugly. He was placed by the fussier critics in the "Ash Can School," did not sell a painting until he was 49. Today his works hang in the best museums, and for their richness in both color and local color (McSorley's Bar; The City from Greenwich Village) they rank with the best paintings ever done in the U.S. A garrulous little man with a long, bony face...
...some private schools no better than gyp joints? Yes, sighs the council, both shoulders to the mat. "The sporadic growth of fly-by-night institutions without standards of any kind confronts independent schools with the same problems which medical schools met and solved in the early 1900s...