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...Kemp Long strode straight to the rostrum. "Double-cross!" he bellowed, in his gravel baritone. "I had 69 votes!" The bill before the house was one of the governor's favorites, and it had just gone down to defeat. Even as Earl bellowed, his floor leaders took their cue; member after member rushed to the speaker's desk to proclaim his vote miscounted...
Julia studies her script for four days, rehearses it in front of her husband, an illustrator named O. Worsham Rudd. By show time she has the script memorized and never uses cue cards. She sometimes views kinescopes of old programs, looking for flawed gestures and diction ("I have a tendency to make my r's too pronounced"). As she delivered her isoth commercial for Lincoln last week, Julia knew precisely what effect she wanted to achieve: "I hope that when I come on-camera I get an 'Oh' of delight, and not 'Oh, her again...
Taking its cue from PBH's Mental Hospitals Committee, the Social Relations Department is considering plans for a seminar in abnormal psychology next year with mental patients as "laboratory studies." Each student would work twice a week rehabilitating one patient at the Waltham Hospital under the supervision of a trained social worker. Seminar discussions, assigned reading and research would then relate the patient's own problems to broader psychological theory. For the first time, students would have concrete "field experience" to supplement their text-book psychology. At the same time, they would meet with psychiatrists and observe the mental hospital...
Significantly, the Yale exhibit also shows that U.S. collectors, long accustomed to taking their cue from abroad, have not neglected the home front. Nearly half the exhibitors had American paintings on show. Among them: such recognized American masters as Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins and Albert Ryder, and a sampling of the turn-of-the-century "Ash Can" realists...
Scoffing at the idealized classic and romantic ideals in vogue, Courbet took his cue from reality as he saw it. "Angels! Madonnas! Who has seen them?" he once shouted, adding, "The first time one comes in here, don't forget to let me know." To young art students Courbet declared: "Art exists only in the representation of objects, visible and tangible to the artist . . . There can be no schools; there are only painters...