Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today's Fun. Seen together, her pictures looked extraordinarily alike in tone and content. Thinly painted in tempera and oil glazes on pressed-wood panels, they all had the vague shimmer of reflections in a forest pool. Their subject was almost invariably girls, mainly girls who spend their nights in Brooklyn and Queens rooming houses and their days working in the garment lofts, offices and novelty factories around Manhattan's Union Square, where Bishop has her studio...
Artist Bishop freely admits her subject-matter is limited. "I try to limit content, to limit everything," she explains, "in order to get down to something in my work. You know, I'm glad this isn't one of the great periods of art. I could never paint a great subject, and the fun about painting today is that we don't have to. We can paint the little things, things that perhaps no one noticed before...
Chapple's contraption measure the rate of "interaction" between two people, but can't recent the content of their remarks the way Bales...
Bill Gelck, recently elected captain of the team, is a Jack of all jumps. The Crimson's top high Jumper, he combines with Jim McLaughlin to form an effective broad jumping team. Both Gelck and McLaughlin also support Durakis in the hurdles. Not content with these events, Geick likes to dabble in the pole vault...
...fraction that had missed the point can be called the Anti-Social Relations Set. This group has adopted the C-plus saga as a proof that all Social Relations courses are ludicrously obvious in their content and ridiculously easy to pass. To this group one need only say, flatly, "Gentlemen, you are wrong;" to argue the value of courses in fields such as sociology and psychology would be more to patronize the Social Relations Department than to defend...