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Although it makes them writhe, they are called "hard edge" painters. Among artists of the New York school, the term separates them from the earlier, fast-draw action abstractionists, who painted with splatter, splash or broad-brush lunge. These second-generation abstractionists strive for a well-wrought finish, rather than a random record of trial and error...
...chisel, realizing, though very young, excellent works. He made his first house when he was seventeen and a half without ever having studied architecture. This house subjected to the influence of that time and of his teacher L'Eplattenier, gave an opening to architectural decorations: "sgraffiti," mural painting, furniture, wrought iron, embossing, etc.... During the following years this school undertook building works (decorative, of course, since it was the fashion at that time): metal, stone, mosaic, stained-glass window (concert-room, church, fragment of a public edifice, etc...) One day everything collapsed before the rivalry and the hatred which...
...Choir College, where from dormitory windows some of the girls defended their honor by tossing out panties and others by tossing out potted plants. When the bonfires cooled next morning, 14 of Princeton's fiercest Tigers were booked and bailed. "Shocking," said Princeton President Robert F. Goheen. whose wrought-iron fence was shorter by 30 ft. after the rumpus. Philosophized Governor Hughes: "It's spring, and the sap begins to run." The annual undergraduate sugaring-off rites scorched the ivy elsewhere in the league. At Yale, tipped-off police hoped to forfend a fracas by locking the freshmen...
...wedding can open on an abyss of revolt; the look of a new apartment can call for the fanciest flight of prose. Occasionally Miss Calisher seems to hover protectively over her characters. But that is rare. Most of the time she shows them off as a collector displays finely wrought curios, turning them skillfully this way and that to catch all sorts of light. How different each is from the rest-and yet how like...
...twentieth century, when judged by its predecessors, has been comparatively mild. In the first decades of the 1900's the only disturbances were wrought by students in small numbers, easily handled by proctors in larger numbers...