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Professor Alfred must believe that a man's home is his castle. 31 Athens Street is a combination of Classical Greek, Continental Renaissance, American Comfort, and William Alfred. The white walls ("It makes everything much brighter, doesn't it?") are covered with illustrations of Greek figures, portraits of colonial women, a sea-scape, some French impressionists, and the Brooklyn Bridge. On one table are three stacks of the book Hogan's Goat (just out) and on another a copy of Life with its Alfred feature. "Did you see what they did to me?" he asks, chuckling at the magazine...

Author: By Joseph A. Kanon, | Title: Grendel, Fedora, and a Big Fat Hit: William Alfred is Still 'Just Folks' | 5/19/1966 | See Source »

Along with his study of old masters, Matisse experimented with the uniques of Impressionism and with bright light and color harmonies of Seurat's "pointillism" (also called "divisionism," this theory of painting suggested that brighter secondary colors, such as green, could be obtain making a series of small patches of the primary colors--in the case of green they are blue and yellow--and allowing these colors to blend in the viewer's eye at a certain distance from the painting rather than mixing the pigments themselves...

Author: By Jonathan D. Fineberg, | Title: Matisse: Innovation From an Armchair | 5/11/1966 | See Source »

...South. Epps, one of the best singers in the Glee Club, was scheduled as one of eight members to perform over a Southern TV station. The management of the station refused to let Epps sing, and Epps quite legitimately cried discrimination. But his musical penchant has had a brighter side also, and Epps is advisor of the Leverett House Opera Society which produced Cosi Fan Tutti last year and is now presenting Don Giovanni...

Author: By Stephen D. Lerner, | Title: Archie Epps | 4/27/1966 | See Source »

...brighter side of today's match is some that Harvard will be playing Columbia, too. The Lions, not usually a threat, bowed to the Crimson, 5-2, last year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Penn to Test Golfers Today In Tough Meet | 4/22/1966 | See Source »

...Minnesota most of his teaching is done in large lecture courses, and he speaks of his students, vaguely. "I'd rather teach men than women, I suppose, Women are brighter, and generally work harder, but then they get crushes on you and you get crushed on them and that's no good...Men go on to law, or business, or something...

Author: By Stuart A. Davis, | Title: John Berryman - 1 | 4/12/1966 | See Source »

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