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...people came. The 60 oils looked very much like all his others. Quinquela used to hustle coal on the docks when he was a youngster, and his technique shows it: he heaves the paint onto the canvas, using a trowel (slightly trimmed in size) instead of a brush...
Among the sun-baked hills of Santa Susana, covered with rough brush and scrub oak, the priests and prophets of ancient Israel might walk without surprise; such was the hard land where Jacob lay down to dream on a pillow of stones and David praised God with song and sword. But the hills of Santa Susana are 35 miles from Los Angeles, and the Jews who walk there are men like Furniture Manufacturer Julius Fligelman or Actor Paul Muni. They and other U.S. Jews of all ages come to Brandeis Camp Institute as to a spiritual oasis where they...
...Kokoschka, whom Hitler once called the most degenerate of all European artists, follows no set school, and he is at war with all who do. Most of the time he works with brutal vigor, painting fierce nudes, expressionistic portraits, or turbulent landscapes done with flailing, cutlasslike strokes of his brush and furnace-bright colors. "Nobody else can do these things," he cries, pointing to the tortured convolutions on a nude drawing. "Who would dare? I am a being with antenna. I receive with my senses." But when the mood is right, he can turn to exquisite watercolor flowers, little "finger...
...Woods. Near Elmira, N.Y., after 200 volunteer searchers spent the night frantically combing the woods for them, Faith Wheelock, n, and her sister, 5, returned from their "camping trip" and complained: "We had a hard time getting to sleep. All those people kept crashing around in the brush...
...court of appeals, Judge Albert Maris ruled that FRB's sweeping charges did not hold up. Said he: "The board paints with an exceedingly broad brush." FRB had shown that Transamerica had grown to gigantic size, dominating 41% of all banking offices, 39% of all bank deposits and 50% of all bank loans in California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada and Arizona. "It may well be in the public interest," said Judge Maris, "to curb the growth of this banking colossus by appropriate legislative or administrative action." But, he ruled, FRB had failed to prove any lessening of competition or tendency...