Tooker, George
Tooker, George (
b New York, 5 Aug. 1920). American painter. He studied at the
Art Students League, 1943–4. His teachers there included Reginald
Marsh, and it was from him and Paul
Cadmus (with whom he studied privately) that he acquired his preference for painting in egg
tempera. His technique is scrupulously detailed in the manner of the Old Masters, but his subjects express the spiritual desolation and debilitating uniformity of modern life. The figures in his paintings all look more or less like one another and go through life as if on a conveyer belt, tense and drained of energy. They are physically close to one another, but emotionally distant.
Subway (1950, Whitney Mus., New York) is perhaps his most famous work—a terrifying vision of Kafkaesque isolation.
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Achilles Group Raises Growth Equity Financing to Provide HR Services to Small Business.
PR Newswire; 1/9/2008; 700+ words
; ...business objectives. Houston-based Ephor Group and First Analysis of Chicago are co-funding the growth financing. Ephor Group, with a long track record of...domain expertise," said Garry Meier, Ephor Group founder and new Achilles Group...
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Another bastion falls as academy votes to end single-sex education
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 10/4/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...choose single-sex education if they wanted to. Geits and ephors who maintain the classical tradition THE Edinburgh Academy...from the old Scots word for a child, while prefects are ephors, after the officials of ancient Sparta.
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Diary:Champagne, but no socialists
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 5/25/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...primitive forerunner of Quidditch. The game is played by Ephors with Clachans in front of Geits. At one time played every break time, it is now limited to an annual match. PS: Ephors are prefects, Clachans are the special wooden bats and Geits...
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Names and emblems: Greek archaeology, regional identities and national narratives at the turn of the 20th century.
Magazine article from: Antiquity; 3/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...naming programme by the state; however, geographic names and emblems on official seals had to be approved by the General Ephor of Antiquities on `archaeological grounds'. Some 60 such `cases', represented by 165 documents spanning the period from...
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Style over substance.(Goodlife Tabloid)
Newspaper article from: The Mercury (South Africa); 4/6/2007; 700+ words
; ...empire comes calling and utters "submission", it's clear things aren't going to end well. Never mind that the creepy Ephors, pestilent elders who leer at half-naked female oracles, don' t want a war. The Spartans have their tough-guy reputations...
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COLUMN: 'Special freakhood'
News Wire article from: University Wire; 3/15/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...unnecessary and over-eroticized scene. Leonidas' enemies, on the other hand, are a veritable gallery of freaks. The political Ephors are misogynistic leper-pigs; Ephialtes the traitor is a hunchbacked troll; the Persian army is an assortment of masked human...
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FILM REVIEW: '300' a fanboy fantasy
News Wire article from: University Wire; 3/9/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...into an illegal war with the millions-strong Persian Empire. Illegal because the inbred, disgustingly foul mystics, or ephors, won't give their needed consent to the war after their drunk, prepubescent and mostly-naked Oracle Girl (Kelly Craig...
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Time was invented by us but never stops playing with our minds.(history of millenarianism)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 11/5/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...War: "In the 15th year [of a truce in the war], in the 48th year of the priesthood of Chrysis of Argos, when Enesias was ephor at Sparta and Pythodorus still had two months to serve as archon at Athens, six months after the battle of Potidea, just at...
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'300' AND COUNTING: It's not just a movie. Western civilization really did hang in the balance.
Newspaper article from: Sunday Gazette-Mail; 3/25/2007; 700+ words
; ...theatrical) Thespian allies. Liberties include the weird scene with the oracles and a lot of Spartan political intrigue. The ephors weren't scary mutants but five Spartan magistrates. The Spartans were betrayed according to Herodotus by someone named Ephialtes...
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Dove non arriva la legge. Dottrine della censura nella prima età moderna
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 4/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...the unavoidable abuses of rulers, Althusius argues anyway for a censura regum, entrusted to the collective magistrate of the ephors. So a doctrine of censorship attains to the status of a system of constitutional limitation on royal power. The survey of...
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ephors
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
ephors [Gr.,=overseers], in ancient Greece...At its peak of authority the board of ephors was the organ of citizen control over the...authorized military commanders, but the ephors had full discretion in levying troops...
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ephor
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
ephor. In the E. Church, a lay guardian or protector in whose charge monastic property was often vested from the 10th cent. onwards.
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Agis IV
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Agis and his friend Lysander, one of the ephors, pushed his proposals through the assembly...these proposals because the newly elected ephors of 242 B.C. were in opposition (the five ephors were magistrates who exercised control over...
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Cleomenes III
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...and of the king's subordination to the ephors, or magistrates. Expansion Policies...Aratus made war inevitable in 229, the ephors authorized Cleomenes to defend the frontiers...When Cleomenes hired mercenaries, the ephors scented danger, and after Cleomenes defeated...
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Chilon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Chilon , 6th cent. BC, one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece . He was a Spartan and brought greater strictness to Spartan training. As an ephor (c.556 BC) he strengthened the power of that position, and for the first time the ephors directed policy with the king.
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