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What Wood Can Say. But Frasconi can be lyrical as well as grim. His studio in Norwalk, Conn., looks out on Long Island Sound and a chain of tidal flats that swarm with migratory birds in spring and fall. In a colorful 1959 se quence, Frasconi shows the crisp, yel low marshland laced with long black lines of birds that seem to pulsate on the paper. Denuded trees float above the steel-blue water, which itself ripples with the grain of the wood. His Homage to Francisco Sabater, honoring the anti-Franco bandit slain in 1960, shows the same respect...
...world over, editorials reflected the world's sense of grief, outrage and loss. "The cool, crisp voice is still," said the Boston Globe in a particularly moving elegy. "The vigor is no more. The last frontier has been passed. A grief inexpressible in words fills the heart of this nation today." The London Daily Mail mourned "a man the world could not afford to lose"; Johannesburg's Rand Daily Mail pronounced Kennedy "one of the greatest leaders of modern times...
...caterpillar-like for two miles along an abandoned highway. Later, in forested bivouac areas ablaze with the golds and russets of autumn, the troops set up pup tents, took hot showers in tents equipped with gas-powered water heaters, wolfed down mountainous helpings of chicken, turkey, potatoes, ice cream, crisp red apples, bread and fresh butter at improvised field kitchens...
...kids. An English playwright of exquisite diction (Robin Bailey) begins wooing Mary, though his blood seems to be several degrees below room temperature. But she can't wash that ring-finger man right out of her hair, not just yet. Hubby has to burn a theater to a crisp and drunkenly clout his little daughter before his charm begins to evade Mary as thoroughly as it has the playgoer...
...Harvard Rugby Club outplayed Villanova at Soldiers Field Saturday, in front of a noisy throng of visiting Villanova fans. It was a windy, crisp day, but even the wind proved little hindrance to the Crimson, as they whipped the Wildcats...