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...wants his picture to be merely good architectural perspective. Both writer and painter do have a common purpose: the writer, to amuse, to shock, to entertain the reader; the painter, to amuse, to shock, to entertain the galleryite: both in-tend to jar your emotions. A fiction writer, to stir your guts, will split any infinitive that gets in the way. A painter, for the same reason, may draw his horizon line perpendicular, and scatter vanishing points like confetti...
Last week leg-weary Manhattan art reporters were convinced that few seasons in living memory had produced so much bustle and stir. While the Whitney Museum and the Museum of Modern Art were ready to spring big shows of U. S. paintings, the number of important small shows and other events left up-to-the-minute-keepers far behind. Samples...
Libel suits involving public officials and prominent persons are almost certain to create a stir. But there is more than mere slander in the Narragansett fracas. The fight between two unscrupulous persons, one, a hot-headed politician, and the other, a person who, many believe, is trying to buy his way into politics, is bound to be no ordinary fray. Each man has demanded the removal of the other, with aspersions on character and integrity freely cast. Each man has defied the other, and each has taken up the other's dare. The courts have reversed the decision...
...childhood Michigan friend), comfortably established in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris. In his spare time he diligently wrote the short stories later to be published as Three Stories & Ten Poems (1923), and in our time (1924). Both were issued by small advance-guardist presses in Paris. Neither created any stir. Since, copies of the Paris edition ot in our time have brought as high as $160 at rare-book sales...
...Conant's plan provides the student with an educational impetus that will stir him long after his formal education is completed. The existence of a well defined program for independent work will do much to overcome the confusion and mental paralysis that seize men after graduation. Such study will both increase the value of what has gone before and provide another "open door" to the exploitation of new fields. The interaction between sustained study and everyday experience should produce a new and useful synthesis...