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Raised in a Brooklyn slum, Shahn struggled through 17 years as a commercial lithographer before graduating to self-expression. His most effective early works were paintings protesting the execution of Sacco & Vanzetti and the imprisonment of Tom Mooney. They had all the immediacy of snapshots.
In the past few years, the annual petitions for changes in parietal rules have died quiet and unexplained deaths in Housemasters conferences. This time, however, the Masters approved the proposed change; the obituary of this year's effort is contained in a letter from Dean Bender, who presided at the...
Charles's work was rough. He had only a big broadax to work with, and often, when his clients lacked the grace to hold still, his mighty swings resulted in bloody mutilation only. Charles would seize his sword then, and stab with a will until the job was done...
A decadent, sportive wastrel, without tact or any conception of the dignity of his office, Clément disgraced the name of Sanson by establishing a museum of horrors in his home, where for five francs the curious public could watch the family guillotine decapitate a sheep. When he put...
Larsen, incredibly, seemed to have expected victory. When the execution had been carried out he mumbled: "I thought I had this one locked up . . . He was like a pistol."