Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proper care is taken in hanging and transporting the canvases. Mr. Sargent was careful not only in his artistic technique but also in mixing his oils. As painters always have done, he experimented sometimes with various unorthodox methods and pigments. He was very careful in working out his sketches. From this great care, however, arose his single technical fault, for in order to keep the outline workable from day to day, he could use paints which dried very slowly. Then, when the sketch finally suited him, he would coat it over with French quick-drying oil. This oil is really...
...contributions must be of the following types of literature: the brief familiar essay, from 500 to 1000 words, the informal personal sketch, from 300 to 600 words, the tabloid book review, from 50 to 100 words, the humorous or satirical sketch, from 100 to 300 words, the sonnet, 14 lines, the rondeau, 13 lines, the triolet, 8 lines, humorous verse, not more than 20 lines and not free verse...
...last of these suggestions is no novelty--instructors in every course in the College always sketch the type of examination which they propose to give. Of the other three this may be said: such a platform leaves no room for a test of the student's powers of coordination. In the individual lies his ability to write scattered threads; his success in so doing determines his success as a student. If his thinking is to be made mechanical he may as well give up all ambitions of becoming "educated...
...racing; the sign of Gemini; a Poem by Witter Bynner; a businesslike forecast by Edward Streeter; a drawing by C.D. Batchelor; some Praise of Circuses by Earl Chapin May; a Portrait in Words by Gertrude Stein; and a sketch by Janet Smalley...
...been said, however, to make clear to the younger generation his general character and aims. On that basis one may well cite a tribute which Mr. Norton once made to another great teacher, a friend of his and a fellow worker in the interests of the University--his sketch of the life of Francis James Child. Concerning Professor Child Mr. Norton wrote these words, and they fit not only the man whom they describe but the man who penned them. "To those who had the happiness of intimacy with him, his learning and all that he accomplished seem...