Word: styling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...first thing to be learned about the Huk rebellion is that there are no facts, American style. How many Huks are there, and how are they doing? One of the few "facts" to be stated with some certainty is that the authorities do not know. They will tell you that there are 12,000 to 14,000 armed Huks on "The Outside," as the shadowy world of the guerrillas is called here, and that since the government launched its new campaign against them in April, the Huk organization, has been mortally hurt. But this estimate is just a guess...
Vienna's tiny Neue Galerie was bright last week with crude, cheery pictures of U.S. farm life, New York State style. The paintings were the work of 89-year-old "Primitive" Grandma Moses, making her first appearance before a European audience. Judging by her reception in Vienna, Grandma Moses' grand tour through The Hague, Berne, and Paris will be something of a triumph...
Like so many monks, the boys of Eton and Harrow had practiced for weeks, preparing fair copies of Wordsworth's sonnet, Upon Westminster Bridge. The Etonians leaned heavily to 16th Century chancery-a tight, slanting, angular style brought by Vatican scribes to Elizabethan England, which avoids loops, keeps "t's" and "p's" short, uses a broad pen for contrasting thick and thin strokes...
Harrow favored no single style. After basic drill on squared paper, its boys were left to develop their own, using as their models great manuscripts of the past six centuries which had been borrowed from the Victoria and Albert Museum...
...senior event (for boys over 15) and Harrow the junior. But more important than the judges' verdict was the evidence that the Commonwealth's future leaders would continue to write a clear and handsome hand. Said the London Times: "The influence of the 16th Century Roman chancery style is predominant, and undoubtedly beneficial ; but the exhibits are commendably free from formalism, and it is clearly the intention of those in charge of this admirable experiment that the bone structure of Arrighi, Johnston and Fairbank* shall be well covered with idiosyncratic muscle and flesh, to produce a sound, natural...