Word: sampler
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...many prizes before, they ran the gamut from watered-down abstractionism to souped-up realism. Basket Bouquet, an impeccable and wholly uninspiring arrangement of lilac smudges by Cape Cod Abstractionist Karl Knaths, took first prize. It looked rather like a flat but tasteful Victorian sampler, translated into the smeary medium of oils. California's Rico Lebrun came in second with Centurion's Horse, a chalky, Picassoid nag, understandably hanging its head in a canvas as dark and narrow as a hall closet...
Noting that last year's divorce rate in Baltimore was near the 3,000 mark, professional Meal Sampler Duncan Hines concluded: "There must be something wrong with the cooking here...
Contrary to popular reports, the poll was not primarily a sex sampler. The questionnaire that each Yale filled out asked 33 questions concerning campus life, and only four were devoted to the undergraduate's favorite indoor sport. But the results are interesting anyhow...