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...Smibert, named Robert Feke. A devout Baptist, Feke portrayed the Baptist minister with the utmost simplicity and force. Hiscox stands above the viewer, as in a pulpit. Though the minister's hair has a certain flowing grace, the rest of him does not. He looks like a bullfrog. The powerful throat seems to be preparing its organ tones; the wide, traplike mouth is about to open. Meanwhile, the brilliantly modeled eyes focus with disdain upon someone in the back row−whether a sinner or a sneezer. The portrait achieves a quality rare in most places and times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: PIONEER PAINTERS | 7/9/1956 | See Source »

With this depth of background, Rock n Roll appeals to all groups. Its lyrics sound the outcry of the suffering romantic, "I'm a Mississippi bullfrog sitting on a Harlem dump, so many girls I don't know which way to jump." With equal fervor, Rock n Roll sympathizes with the nihilistic element of the Cambridge community, "I gotta Flip Flop n Fly, and I don't care...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: "Flip Flop n Fly" | 10/6/1955 | See Source »

...island of I Love Me, a rich and decadent democracy presided over by King Capricorn, Prime Minister Benjamin Bullfrog Secretary of State Ebenezer Muddle and Lord Chancellor Marmaduke Malfeasance, is threatened with invasion by Odioso, dictator of the land of We Hate You: Odioso first raises the passionate challenge of his have-not state: Give us our share That is our prayer. Just as the rivers, oceans and air Just as the wind Is for mankind So is your wealth, my people find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ORGANIZATIONS: M.R.A.'s Message | 8/15/1955 | See Source »

...club officers decided there was not enough time during rehearsals to sing "Polly Wolly Doodle All the Day" and determined to convert the Club into a genuinely ambitious choral organization. Davison agreed with the plan to separate from the instrument clubs and the big switch from "the Bullfrog on the Bank" to Bach was made...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: Doc' Davison: Faith in Worthwhile Music | 3/27/1954 | See Source »

Beyond the gaudy city limits the desert closes in, and beyond the funereal mountains in the distance lie the ghosts of boom towns past-Virginia City, Goldfield, Bullfrog and the others. Now & then the dice dance nervously and the windows jitter from the effects of a pre-dawn atomic blast at the AEC's test center 70 miles away. But there is no uneasiness, no sense of doom in Las Vegas even when mushroom clouds are rising beyond the horizon. Says a native Vegan: "It just couldn't happen. This is just the beginning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: LAS VEGAS: IT JUST COULDN'T HAPPEN | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

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