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...Egypt a thin-shanked scribe squatted cross-legged and on a broad sheet of papyrus spread across his lap drew, with brush dipped into ink-the hieroglyphics of his master's discourse. That too was writing...
...worked with brush and palette at Port-au-Prince, painting in the streets, his models picked from among passersby, Artist Perfielieff became conscious that his work aroused not merely interest but indignation. What Metropolitan critics Would see as dazzling, grotesque or smartly degenerate the Haitians saw as libels on themselves. Finally the editor of Le Novelliste (Port-au-Prince) thundered: "If there existed a leper settlement, or sanitarium for paralytics, it is certain that this painter would probably go there in search of Haitian specimens. We suspect him of being one of those floating timber revolutionists that Russia has scattered...
...paintings, numbering over 80, include portraits, landscapes and still life subjects. They are unusual on account of their technical excellence. Dr. Ross' brush is the servant of his understanding as well as of his emotions. He gives us the keen satisfaction of a beautifully finished and ordered performance. Not confined to one particular mode of expression, he ranges freely and easily from one to another. It has been his aim to understand and to practice the different modes of the art as they have been developed by the reat masters: the mode of outlines and flat tones; of low relief...
...comes with the notice that Yale tears down old buildings to build new whereas Harvard merely has fires in the old ones and then repairs them. It is less expensive to cater to ancestor-worship in whatever its form than to be creative. It is also safer. If you brush your teeth criss-cross instead of up and down because you like it better, you should go to Yale. If you do so because grandpa did, better go to Harvard...
Married. Miss Katrina van Dyke, daughter of the Reverend Henry van Dyke, professor emeritus of English literature at Princeton University, onetime (1913-17) U. S. Minister to the Netherlands; to Murray Peabody Brush Jr., direct descendant through his maternal grandmother of Betty Washington, sister of George Washington; by Dr. van Dyke, at Princeton...