Word: romanticists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even by Sketch's dustbin standards, this was not much of a story. Shiv, an Indian maharajah's son, is a bush-league playboy-not, say, in Porfirio Rubirosa's class. Jane was an insatiable romanticist who could, if need be, wriggle through a love affair in five minutes. What's more, she had a husband and two-year-old daughter in the West Indies, where she had left them nearly two years...
After more than 300 uneventful round trips between Caracas and New York, Venezuelan Airline Pilot Henry Peter Bush, 42, a bachelor and an uncured romanticist, was bored. He wanted to give up flying some day and write adventure stories. He took his accumulated leave and set off on a round-the-world trip (Europe, the Middle East. India). Last week he turned up in Tokyo with a headline-making story right out of Terry and the Pirates. He had just come back, he said, from flying 350 miles into Red China to bring out the 13-year...
...ejaculations of Hopper are more lively than his paintings. One thought is clear: the continuum of romanticist murmuring and sweet trills of past American art will "glow" through the age of Hopper and those who follow, amply aided by TIME...
...believed that the little craft had struck an uncharted reef, capsized and righted herself. "Those aboard," he said, "must have clung to her sides for as long as they were able before the seas washed them away." Why, then, was her compass missing? And her log book? One diehard romanticist persisted in the belief that Dusty Miller had kidnaped his entire ship's company and whisked them away by lifeboat and raft to a desert island to live forever after, free of the perils of divorce courts and bill collectors...
Lately Root has gone to England for some of Britain's best moderns. The Metropolitan show has a dark and gloomy landscape by Romanticist John Piper, examples of Graham Sutherland's thorny fantasies and Ben Nicholson's thin, surgical curves and angles. At 68, and feeling his age. Root has no idea whether the abstractionists he is now buying will eventually become recognized masters or not. But he thinks it is worth the gamble. "How else can a painter live?" he asks. "You've got to give him a chance to show what...