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Squash racquets-which women play to keep thin, and old men to keep young-was still strictly a young man's game in tournament play...
Rowlandson's raffish lampoons showed a corrupt but essentially comic world in which everyone was either too fat or too thin. Plump, pug-faced William Hogarth was perhaps harder to take. With less wit, he had gone deeper into the cynical, sensual, swaggering spirit of his time, and used his engraving tools, like a moral surgeon, to lay bare the malignant tumors of cruelty, ignorance and greed...
...call the new Courtney Burr production a Victorian melodrama, despite the fact that it says quite plainly on the program that its episodes occur in 1945 and in spite, also, of its very un-Victorian lead, Percy Kilbride, who steals the show until he finally falls through the thin surface of "Little Brown Jug's" plot and of his own tedium...
...19th-Century Frenchman Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, who believed that drawing is seven-eighths of art. His penciled portraits had all the icy perfection, but not the controlled fire of the Renaissance greats. Said Classicist Ingres: "Let us not admire Rembrandt and the others through thick and thin; let us not compare them. . . to the divine Raphael and the Italian School; that would be blaspheming...
Neither Conservatives nor Liberals, he felt, were suitable messengers of the new evangel. ("Time need not be wasted on Conservatives, since time itself will take care of them." "A Liberal is [a person] who puts his foot down firmly on thin air.") Society's crisis called for Radicals. The first part of Reveille for Radicals is a paean to the Tom Paine type of U.S. Radical. But even Radicals must first be awakened: "Deep in the cradle of organized labor America's Radicals restlessly toss in their sleep-but they sleep...