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...partner are about to put on their big show for the gullible, he learns what his own billing is to be: that of a saintly eunuch who has surgically rendered "his id and libido null and void." Much attached to his id and libido, Hatterr scoots off into the brush...
Chunchon (see map). They tried to hide their movements under smoke screens created by smudge pots and burning brush. Allied planes dived through the smoke, raking troop concentrations, vehicle columns, pack trains, motorcycles and oxcarts. General Van Fleet and his army braced for the attack-with barbed wire, minefields and artillery massed "wheel to wheel." Any night the Chinese might blow their bugles and whistles, set off their green flares, and attack...
...passed the million-man mark. Our own casualties, American casualties, have passed 65,000. The Koreans have lost about 140,000 . . . The enemy probably has lost 750,000 casualties . . . A million men in less than eleven months of fighting! And it grows more savage every day. I just cannot brush that off as a Korean skirmish...
...streams of ticker tape on the wind, whipped free one instant, snarled the next, and punctuated with blobs and smears which break the canvas into arcs, tunnels, humps and skies of space. Weak in color, his paintings are always original and often elegant in composition. Like the finest Chinese brush drawings, they have an air of being dashed off, and they are. To give his work the spontaneous quality, De Kooning does it fast, destroys hundreds of failures...
...throughout the war. In 1947, when he was 63, Beckmann came to the U.S. to teach-first at St. Louis' Washington University and later at the Brooklyn Museum School. He urged his students to paint from the heart, yet never hesitated to correct their efforts with a loaded brush and firm, heavy hand...