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...tactics very like those Batista used against him. Castro gradually pulled his regular troops out of the Escambray because they can't be relied on to fight old comrades-in-arms. In place of the regulars, Castro sent in militiamen, who cautiously refrained from going into the brush, and at night retired from the hills for safety...
This week a retrospective of 58 Lawrence paintings opens at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pa.-the third stop in a long, nationwide tour organized by the American Federation of Arts. From the earliest through the latest works, there have been a growing maturity and an increasing sureness of brush, but at heart Lawrence's paintings remain the same. He deals with people who have made history and those who simply endure it - human tales that are almost always a trifle sad and yet still glow with the wonder of fresh discovery (see color...
They were known as the Special Artists of the Civil War, and their mission was not to write of battle but to portray the terrible visage of war. Their implements, besides the pencil, were the crayon, the brush and the sketchbook. Their lot was to go wherever the winds of combat blew, to live under fire, to endure the privation, hardship and danger of the campaign for months on end, and to send to the illustrated newspapers that employed them rough and hasty sketches whose chief purpose was to cue the wood engraver back home. From Fort Sumter to Appomattox...
...likeliest recruits, he adds, "are inclined to be sensibly clean people, not liberal and dirty people." Whatever they are, they all have things on their minds. Wisconsin's Roger Claus pumps for nuclear bomb testing: "We should stop this neurotic brooding, brush the fallout off our lapels and stand up to the Russians in the great heritage of this country." But at the University of Chicago, Conservative Roger Hamowy favors disarmament in the interests of "freedom," because then the Government would be forced to cut taxes...
...Greco. When it came to his own painting, he refused to be hurried, would go through hundreds of "sittings"-three-to four-hour stretches before the easel-to achieve what he wanted. With a lesser talent, the result might have been dry and academic. Under Dickinson's brush a mystic world of magic harmonies emerged...