Word: mannerisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...acquisition, a 1949 oil entitled Woman in Blue, is the donation of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer, who are notable collectors of modern art. The woman was obviously posed in a chair, but she is painted so that she seems to stand parallel to the wall, in a manner reminiscent of El Greco's Fray Hortensio Felix Paravicino. The intricate composition contrasts the arabesques on the left side of the canvas with the straighter verticals on the right, and is painted in a startingly original color scheme, full of blues, lavenders, and canary yellow. This is major Picasso...
...first time, the Crimson played relaxed, confident hockey--and made the New York team play the varsity's game. Coach Cooney Weiland's strategy unfolded period by period in a manner that was truly beautiful to watch...
...Labor Party. In 1948 he was elected to the Senate, descended on Washington as one of the brashest and most brilliant of the Fair Deal's Young Turks. In a decade of national politics, Humphrey has been an outspoken advocate of civil rights, farm supports, foreign aid, all manner of liberal legislation, has built (with the help of his old friend Governor Orville Freeman) a formidable political machine in Minnesota. At the same time he has matured and mellowed enough to reach such a warm rapport with the Southern conservative leaders of the Senate that he is ranked...