Word: crackerjacks
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...tried to stab his painting hand) exhausted him. At 40, Van Dyck left England to Cromwell's Roundheads, returned to Antwerp. He had hopes of becoming Rubens' successor in the field of mythological and religious painting, but within three years he died. Had he lived longer, the crackerjack art student, playboy and plaything of society might have known disappointment ; big things were not in his line...
Bringing New York's crackerjack little company to Chicago was largely the idea of the Chicago Tribune's caustic critic Claudia Cassidy, who had insistently trumpeted, "Why doesn't Chicago have something like it?" Claudia deserved some of the credit for the opening-night success (though the house was not sold out) and a subsequent Carmen (which did sell out). Wrote she: "If we are to have opera on a budget, either visiting or in residence, we may as well know immediately what it is like. Salome indicated that it is vivid, effective, sometimes brilliant, and that...
...Crimsons have consistently turned out crackerjack performances it is not an accident. Norman H. Brooks '48, who together with Jay A. Meltzer '49 chairs the Social Service Committee, estimates that either he or one of his seven House supervisors spends a three-hour minimum in the recruiting, assigning, and final initiation of a new man. He must be thoroughly interviewed to determine his interests and his background. The chances are that he will come out on top during his first bout with a gang fresh in from the streets. But not, according to Brooks...
...hours trying to prove that one of Rubens' assistants deserves most of the credit for Rubens' best stuff. The scholar, Rogers Bordley (Foreign Editor of Art Digest), contends that Rubens was more a fast-talking agent than he was a fast-working artist. He kept a crackerjack stable of less renowned painters in his Antwerp mansion, "finished" and signed their efforts as well...
Apparently it seldom occurs to anyone but the N.E.A. and a few others that the cure for all this ignorance is education; . . . that in order to have an educational program compatible with a high standard of living and a high standard of democracy, adequate facilities and crackerjack personnel are needed ; that the foundation and maintenance of top quality public education is essential to the survival of democracy; that "the voice of the people is clear and temperate in proportion as the people are well informed and well educated...