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Within the strict limits he sets himself, Wyeth's carefully wrought tempera paintings almost invariably succeed in being both clear and convincing. Strangely enough, his watercolors, which he dashes off in a hurry, do too. In them his love of nature (preferably bleak) has much freer rein, and in them he proves himself a delicate and sensitive draftsman, not merely a careful...
...reputation in an altogether different field: his new exhibition at London's Leicester Galleries consisted almost entirely of reclining nudes. Moreover, the limp, heavy figures, painted in broad strokes of summery colors, were an instant hit. Kitchens' switch to nudes, said the London Sunday Times, "has wrought a double change in his pictures, making them both richer in color and broader in construction...
...week Bernie tossed in the towel. Said he, in a characteristically formal Bierman statement: "I have requested that I be relieved of the football coaching duties at the end of the year." Minnesota's fangless Gophers were sorry to see Bernie go. At week's end they wrought an upset by beating Purdue, 27-14, then hoisted Bernie to their shoulders and lugged him in triumph off the field...
...have failed] to tell our story in your country," he told a convention of bankers at Whitefield, N.H. "Today [I intend] to cast aside any restraining influence of that modesty which I hope is a Canadian virtue, and talk to you . . . unblushingly . . . of the virtual transformation which has been wrought in the Canadian economy within the past ten years...
...book; he calls it "just something to be read; in fact a legend." Yet there can be little doubt, especially when page after page of Waugh's sky-blue prose goes purple with emotion, that the author intended his legend to be literature-a lovingly wrought story that would take its place in the Christian Apocrypha...