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...school clubs, and a prizewinning baker of chocolate-chip cookies and chocolate cake. "I'd like to be a Jack-of-all-trades and a master of one." Carolyn Smith, 17, is taking seven periods of art at New Canaan (Conn.) High School, aims to be a professional painter, and is glad that, unlike most of her classmates, "I know what I'm going to do in life...
When he was called upon to lead Britain in 1940, Churchill felt that his "past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial." In fact, he was already 65 and had led a full life as a politician, historian, biographer, journalist, painter, and soldier...
Elemental, prodigious, indomitable, the spirit of Winston Churchill prevailed even as sickness shrouded his senses and the world waited to write his eulogies. Statesman and politician, historian and painter, orater and adventurer, his versatility, energy and excellence made him a revered and legendary figure ten years before his death. But imposing as his accomplishments are--his thirty volumes, his Nobel Prize, his magnificient speeches, his lucid grasp of European politics, his war-time greatness--it is ultimately his spirit, the proud, fierce joy with which he lived, that is most awesome...
...reaching out into the uncharted universe of sound. The effect is a kind of stream-of-consciousness music, an unchained melody of jagged cries, urgent bleats and halting, irregular leaps, played to the splintered cross rhythms of his sidemen. Coleman's genius is that, like an abstract painter, he is able to impose a connecting pattern on an elusive free form. When it works, it is the most exciting music being played in jazz today...
Died. Milton Clark Avery, 71, pre-abstract-expressionist painter whose studies of blocky, faceless figures and wispy, grey-green seascapes in the 1920s drew a blank with the public, yet so inspired such young artists as Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb that he became a pivotal influence on them, even though he himself had to wait until the 1950s before his own primitivistic, relatively representational canvases finally brought as much as $10,000; after a long illness; in New York City...