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...teacher, he does not impose his own approach to art upon his students; they are not even allowed inside his studio. He encourages them to use their emotional and intellectual experiences and gives them the knowledge of technique necessary to express themselves. In Europe, the print is apt to be a group effort: one man does the drawing, another makes the pigments, still another does the engraving. At Iowa, the student does everything. Lasansky prefers etching and engraving on copperplate to lithography because the discipline is more rigid. His technique, which he calls intaglio, is really a combination of many...
...only too happy to bear the title of mason (architect). In subject, the artists favored the deities of Hinduism and Buddhism, which flourished with the Khmers. Like almost all Oriental artists, they modeled their own work largely on what had been done before. The stance of the gods was apt to be ritualistic, and rarely did a Khmer statue show movement...
...true, their discovery is extremely important for astronauts. Meteorites are certainly non-earthly, and if they contain life there is apt to be life elsewhere in the solar system. In this case, the astronauts of the future who land on planets had better guard against infection by extraterrestrial germs...
...play, tells the story of a small-town prude (Geraldine Page), a Mississippi parson's daughter who as she approaches her 30th year, finds herself unmarried; still pretty in a dim way but getting a bit odd and starchy; prone to nervous flutters of the heart; apt to sleep ill of nights; liable to warble La Golondrina at charity bazaars; beginning to resent her slavery to a kleptomaniac mother (Una Merkel) who is glad to be mad; beginning to be desperate...
...title page of his first collection of short stories in twelve years, John O'Hara has set a remark of Joseph Conrad's that is far more apt than most epigraphs: "My task ... is, by the power of the written word, to make you feel-it is, before all, to make you see. That-and no more. And it is everything." At least it is everything that O'Hara does well (if, for this master of the ear, it is understood that feeling includes hearing). The peculiar limitation of the author's great skill is that...