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...after collectors' items and elevated graphic art into a recognized art form in its own right. Even in his preliminary drawings, such as the one he did for a now destroyed Frankfurt altarpiece (see cut). Dürer revealed the caliber of his genius: with a few deft brush strokes on green paper, he was able to depict the figure of an aged apostle fully molded, superbly draped and dramatically lighted, with a power and emotional impact that few oil painters could surpass...
...excellence achieved in this brief period is shown by Cranach's son and pupil, Lucas Cranach the Younger. Starting with a piece of paper tinted slightly pink, the young Cranach sketched the head and shoulders of the young Princess Elizabeth of Saxony (see color page) with quick brush strokes of brown ink, then tinted the face and hair with oil paint. The result of a few hours' work is a freshly seen and unforgettable image of a young girl-demure, a trifle petulant and uncertainly trembling on the threshold of womanhood...
Just as serious was the short brush with respectability the game had in 1871, when the U.S. Minister to Great Britain, Robert Schenck, got a little something going at Queen Victoria's estate in Somersetshire. Her Majesty happened by and took a hand. She was delighted and asked Schenck to draw up some rules. He obliged and added that "it is good practice to chaff (talk nonsense) with a view to misleading your opponents." This brazen encouragement of coffee-housing caused U.S. poker purists to demand his recall...
...decision to boycott the film Blackboard Jungle, or TIME'S defense of her act. Rather than be shocked ai American school conditions, be they typical or not, Europeans must have wondered at a humorless Government always ready to trumpet its virtues but equally ready with a whitewash brush for its vices...
...Democrats had never fallen upon unhappy days. In the hotel lobby party workers raffled off a mink coat, while in the Fairmont's Cirque Room, Democrats clustered admiringly around James Heavey, a 30-year-old draftsman who won a place in the Democratic hagiology when he had a brush with Secret Service men last year after heckling Vice President Richard Nixon at a San Mateo rally...