Word: roughhewn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Department of Architecture, Bauhaus-Founder Walter Gropius (TIME, Feb. 8. 1937). Nobody would be less disposed than Herr Gropius to exaggerate the merit of his students' free designs at the expense of buildings actually erected, cities actually built under varying conditions in the U. S. S. R. Roughhewn, meditative Architect Gropius, a continual smoker of 5? miniature cigars, has made himself popular at Harvard by teaching a practical esthetic. Resenting architectural "styles" whether ancient or modern, he has established a new basis for instruction on Bauhaus principles: a thorough knowledge of building materials, training in three-dimensional rather than...
Barlach's reaction to his environment is vigorous and positive. Unlike the other two, he is essentially a carver and, like his late Gothic German predecessors, is a carver of wood. His peasant men and women are emotional creatures, strangely Slavic in character, clad in roughhewn garments that are subtly expressive of the figures' mood. They have the same subjective intensity that is found in the strange dramas written by the artist...
...last decade, Cinemactress Joan Crawford has been hushaby lady to millions for whom dreams at prevailing box-office prices are the only escape from failure and mediocrity. Her partner in romance is usually some slick-haired reigning actor. In Mannequin, crinkly-eyed, roughhewn Spencer Tracy seems ill at ease, especially with dialogue lines like "somebody hit me with a hypo full of love...
...occasionally groaning, occasionally sighing, never quite reaching a definite conclusion. Composer Harris had chosen the tune because it was what his father had whistled in the mornings when he went striding out to his farmlands, in the evenings when he plodded wearily home. Intent was to keep the music "roughhewn, sinewy and directly outspoken." In his dry, blunt speech. Composer Harris makes much of his background, of the fact that he was born 38 years ago in an Oklahoma log cabin which his father hewed by hand, of his own early years spent farming in California's San Gabriel...