Word: sketched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...storm. "That's fine! That's fine!" he would cry every time a big wave tossed the boat aloft. He drew on foot, on horseback and on trains, was outraged when the conductor would not hold the train long enough for him to complete a sketch: "Damn the fellow. He has no feeling!" His work was championed by such men as Critic John Ruskin and Painter Sir Thomas Lawrence and commanded top prices. But it was also called the worst "claptrap ever painted...
Nice to Call. In Britain the reaction was mixed. "Be glad," trumpeted the tabloid Daily Sketch, while the Church of England newspaper warned against "blurring" of the "precise dogmatic cleavage" between the two churches. The Rev. Howard Stanley, secretary of the Congregational Union, said that Congregationalists would wish the Archbishop well; but the moderator of the Church of Scotland, the Rev. John Burleigh, sniffed that it was "nice of the Archbishop to call on the Pope, but I hope only pleasantries will be exchanged...
MAURICE BRAZIL PRENDERGAST is being honored at the BOSTON MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS with a major exhibition of his works. Over 150 watercolors, oils, monotypes, and sketch-books will be shown--many for the first time publicly...
...stunt and show-off side of their performance-letting the audience call the tune or enacting Dostoevsky in ten seconds-seems a mistake. At times, too, there is conflict between their manner, which is essentially a freewheeling one, and their matter, which demands the foreplanning of the revue sketch or blackout. Their eye is as deadly keen as their tongue can be brilliantly sharp; but when they impersonate, when the glance counts for more than its object or the inflection means more than the actual word, they occasionally lack a final polish. Still and all, they are frequently hilarious...
This is only a sketch of the way pre-College experience reappears during the Freshman year, but it virtually discredits the frequent claim that the first year is good because it forces students to reexamine themselves, draw on their inner resources, and grow in stature. In fact, many of the changes a Freshman goes through are progress only because the Freshman year is considered a time of progress...