Word: bethlem
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...must be classed among the dead." Few English artists can have received a more crushing valediction than this, written in an art journal in 1843, on a 26-year-old painter named Richard Dadd. He probably never read it, for he had just been bundled off to Bethlem Hospital (whose lugubrious halls of madmen had given the word "bedlam" its English use) in a strait-waistcoat...
...evidence is up in London's Tate Gallery this summer through August: poor Dadd's first one-man show, more than 200 oils, watercolors and drawings, including a series of mysterious "sketches for the passions" that record Dadd's tormented self-examinations and still belong to Bethlem Hospital. Almost all his known work is at the Tate, and it acquaints us with the most tragically fated and one of the most brilliant talents in all English 19th century art. As Patricia Allderidge, Bethlem's archivist, remarks in her scrupulous and absorbing catalogue: "One did not have...
...following foot ball games will be played today: Williams Vs Amherst at Amherst, and Sevens Vs Technology at Boston, (championship game); Columbia Vs Pennsylvania at the Berkeley Oval, New York; Yale Vs Cornell at Ithaca; Trinity Vs University of Vermont at Burlington; Lehigh Vs Johns Hopkins at Bethlem; Lafayette Vs Swarthmore at Easton; Haverford Vs Franklin and Marshall college at Lancaer; Yale '93 Vs Williston Academy at Easthampton; N. Y. Athletic club Vs Orange Athletic club at Orange; Staten Island Athletic club Vs Crescent Athletic club at Brooklyn...
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