Word: eye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lewis Carroll sketched pretty well, for an amateur, but he preferred not to illustrate his own books. Instead, he kept a critical eye on Artist John Tenniel. He instructed Tenniel not to give Alice "so much crinoline," and warned that "the White Knight must not 'have whiskers." It bothered him that Tenniel never used a model. "Tenniel vows he no more needs one than I should need a multiplication table to work out a mathematical problem. . . ." But in the end it was Tenniel who made Alice's Wonderland, and the other side of the Looking-Glass, places that...
...still lifes incline to be dull in color, but they have space, weight and solidity. And Sepeshy can reproduce the texture of almost anything in nature-from the barnacles on a beached boat to the faint down on a woman's neck. Says he: "I love the fine, eye-burning work involved. . . A friend tells me that my work is immaculate in everything but conception...
...victory celebration at the Biltmore Hotel. MacPhail blustered in late, demanded a private room for his own party, began to celebrate with a tirade against teetotaling Dodger President Branch Rickey, whom Larry does not like. When one of MacPhail's friends defended Rickey, MacPhail punched him in the eye. His outbursts against his own partners made Topping so angry that guests had to break in to head off a brawl...
...Lansing, a 32-year-old geneticist and old-age expert at Washington University, has been studying the rotifer, a minute animal that lives in water. Rotifers are ideally fitted for experiments on senescence : they are multicellular,* have simple brains, eye spots, and live three weeks or less. The females produce fertile eggs without male help. (The males are rare, weak, often impotent, live only 24 hours...
Pattern for Error. The most eye-catching conclusion: "Everywhere we found freedom of worship. Even in Yugoslavia . . . churches were open and crowded. In Poland and Hungary religious instruction by priests is still compulsory in state schools. Nowhere has there been an official attempt to prevent people from worshiping as they please...