Word: allston
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hundred-eighty-seven University car owners have aligned themselves behind the proposed Soldiers Field parking plan, poll tabulations showed last night, while 115 men have definitely refused to park their autos in the H.A.A. controlled field near the Allston horseshoe...
Weekend football extra headlines proclaiming that Richard C. Harlow had fielded his last team in the Allston Horseshoe and was about to resign were completely discredited by the coach himself the following night...
...that the Hemingway influence had spent itself, they were less sure of what is to come in U.S. writing. Said Robert Penn Warren: "I know that it had better not be the cozy and vulgar version of sweetness-and-light longed for by the friends and relations of Oliver Allston [Elder Critic Van Wyck Brooks] or by complacent tinhorn patrioteers. The times we are heading into shouldn't give much encouragement for that guff except in the lending libraries." Added Dos Passos: "Young writers who believe in themselves should be willing to starve in a garret once more...
...Allston, the son of an aristocratic South Carolina family, first went to Boston as a student at Harvard, was infected with Boston's quickening interest in Europe's classical culture. He visited Italy and France, studied the immense compositions of Titian, Veronese and Tintoretto. In 1811, he settled in England to paint like them. When he returned to Boston seven years later, his fame seemed secure...
...brought back with him an unfinished canvas of Belshazzar's Feast. Tart-tongued Gilbert Stuart promptly advised him to change the whole perspective. Allston tried. But he never got the picture right. For 25 years, while admiring Harvard students sat at his feet, while Boston's great dropped in at his romantically dusty studio for chats that continued long past midnight, Allston struggled with Belshazzar's Feast. He painted minor works, but kept returning to Belshazzar. Six hours before his death in 1843, he was still at work at it, and getting nowhere...