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...Italy in 1874, he dropped into a small church north of Florence and saw something he liked very much. It was a big, unsigned and undocumented painting of the Nativity, which Shaw felt certain was from the hand of the 16th Century Venetian master, Tintoretto. He bought it and bore it proudly home...
...special badge, must be recommended by another person ("say, a schoolteacher, club leader, and so on"). "I want to get across religious ideas indirectly," explained Editor Morris over his double whisky in the Two Brewers in London one evening last week. "I don't want to bore young readers with dull and dry preaching...
...Promise Me?" By the time he was 16, Gian-Carlo had composed two operas and finished five years of ginnasio and a year and a half of liceo in Milan-"the usual European classical education, a great bore." Far from a bore for him were the family's jaunts to their box at La Scala to hear Toscanini conduct opera...
...draws forth. Fredenthal had spent hours in an NBC radio engineer's booth, watching the great man conduct orchestra rehearsals. Toscanini moved too fast to catch in an orthodox sketch, so Fredenthal made multiple-image sketches that recorded a number of recurrent gestures simultaneously. The resulting watercolor bore some relation to Marcel Duchamp's famed Nude Descending a Staircase and some to Gjon Mili's stroboscopic photographs. It had more warmth than either...
...Psychologist Charles analyzes it, had its first flowering during the flowering of New England. William Ellery Channing, for instance, seemed to think that the essential qualities of the schoolmarm were "gray hair and spectacles." Of his own schoolmistress he recalled: "Her nose was peculiarly privileged and honored, for it bore two spectacles. The locks which strayed from her close mobcap were most evidently the growth of other times." Clucking sympathetically, Oliver Wendell Holmes struck a similar note. The teacher he described in Elsie Venner was "a poor, overtasked, nervous creature-we must not think too much of her fancies...