Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Giovanni, each Madonna and Child, Crucifixion, Pieta, martyred saint, and lay portrait was an essay on nature as well as on man. He organized his pictures with the care of a conscientious gardener, planting every detail where it would have room to grow and impress itself on the eye. Light was all-important in his best works; he fixed its color and quality precisely enough to show the weather and the time of day. But the light said even more: he made it a link between people and landscapes. In paintings like Saint Francis (see cut), the painted light seems...
...Wanted Wings." In Amarillo, Tex., B. P. Brents wondered what on earth to do with a Flying Fortress he had just won in an essay contest. His winning thesis: "What I'd do with a Flying Fortress...
Williams' prize, which carries a stipend of $500, was for an essay on "Sophocles the Prophet"; an essay entitled "Simmias" won Roos $200, and Hallinan's third price of $100 was for "A Study of Carlyle's Historical Theory and Technique...
...Latin essay, "Haee Temporum Tristitia," won Davis $150, while Pressly's $100 third prize was for an essay on "Vernon Parrington and the Writing of American Literary History...
Honorable mention went to Hallinan for an essay on "Individualism in Plato's Political Philosophy"; to Reuben P. Hersh '47 for an essay on "Gilbert, of Gilbert and Sullivan", and to Seymour Sharnik for "Technique of Rebellion: An Essay on the Hemingway Hero...