Word: brooding
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...think he is ready yet for figure work, has deliberately concentrated on landscapes and a low-keyed palette until he feels he has a solid background. "There's no good dithering here and dithering there." says Reynolds. "Versatility is a horrible word. You draw and you brood and you try to get something fundamental. Discipline and restraint are the things that count. That is unless you want an emotional orgy...
...William Brood '55 of Weston and Leverett House will become associate manager for next reason. The winner of the freshman competition was Thomas Ingram '56, of Lake Forest, III. and Wigglesworth Hall...
...walk past the site because it made him cry. In his early 20s, he was jilted by a flirt whom he had worshiped for four years. On the rebound, he married Catherine Hogarth,* a pouter pigeon of a woman who gave him ten children but small joy. This brood he later called "the largest family ever known with the smallest disposition to do anything for themselves...
Afterwards, the Fremantles settled to a quiet country life in England, and Betsy's diary became filled with the domestic trivialities of a life fully enjoyed. Betsy amassed a brood of children, worried over their manners and education, "danced 24 couples till past four o'clock in the morning," and, as a matron of 19, sniffed that "the fashion now is to be almost naked, even old women show all their necks and back." Her happiness was in her marriage: "Mr. Fremantle very loving to his wife who is uncommonly attentive...
...much to hope that more men like Carnegie Foundation President Carmichael will step forward categorically on the side of truth to expose this generation's educators and fellow travelers for the brood of nihilistic vipers that they are ? One would almost believe so, when pondering the inane and pious cant that appears as the profound soul-searching of the majority of contributors to Edward R. Murrow's This I Believe series...