Word: chalke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chalk Drill...
...Composer Leginska's music is sometimes turgidly slow, it is on the whole superior to the story she chose and to the Chicago City Opera's blundering production. Well-knit and melodious, the music often gives a real feeling of the sea as it beats against the chalk cliffs of the Cornwall coast. Leginska worked like a fury at rehearsals, got telling results from orchestramen. It was not her fault that the performance began a half hour late, that Morwenna, supposedly a middle-aged character, was mistaken for the youthful heroine or that Baritone John Charles Thomas (Gale...
...class in abnormal psychology in Atlanta, Ga.'s Emory University, Professor W. G. Workman, trying vainly to hypnotize a student for demonstration purposes by monotonous talk and having him stare at a chalk line, suddenly noticed that a watching member of the class had gone into a rigid trance. It was Charles Hudson, lonely, nervous junior, a star pupil in abnormal psychology. Professor Workman could not bring Charles Hudson out of the trance, prescribed exercise and normal activity. For three days fellow-students walked the blank-eyed boy around the campus, rode him on street cars, took...
...energy outlining the irregularities of famous people to his students, resulting laughter, if any, comes not as approval of the instructor, but as a polite means of expressing curiosity that the chaste-looking young man should care so much for smutty details. The average undergraduate as not easily duped; chalk-throwing, stalking from side to side, original arm-motions, and other attempts at exalting the Unusual Personality merely rile him or inject utter despair...
...least one dated drawing for every five years of Leonardo's career. The drawings begin vigorously and experimentally, turn precise and dry, explore and finish the possibilities of silverpoint, then drop silverpoint entirely, solve the problems of shading in concave spaces to define forms, turn to red chalk in a bold, open style, then to pen & ink and black chalk, once again with exquisite neatness but with a new heavy deliberation and economy. Finally, as the paralysis began to clamp on the heavy-bearded, 60-year-old man, Leonardo was finishing his appalling Deluge series of calamity and death...