Word: flowers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last of the artists represented, Alden B. Christie '57, is the most accomplished painter. He has a good sense of design and fine knowledge of color and texture. The mechanical red flower (pictured) is the best picture of the show except perhaps for his other highly colorful, erupting abstraction. There is nothing particularly new in his style. He is nevertheless, very much in control and is already a capable abstractionist with rocking color...
...Ferrua, who headed the digging, "has ever been found in an early Christian cemetery." Some of the paintings show episodes from the life of Christ (the Sermon on the Mount) and from Judaeo-Christian legend (Lot and his daughters), while others are wholly pagan. Cleopatra is shown in a flower garden, holding an asp to her breast. A cubicle is devoted to the labors of Hercules. Other pictures seem to be scenes from contemporary Roman life, such as a teacher apparently lecturing about anatomy...
...yielded to one man, and he was a sergeant. In fact, we cannot even be sure that he was not an officer. And then, our mother was no longer young, and there are affronts which a woman past the age of 50 feels less acutely than one in the flower of her youth...
...Kirkland is in the throes of change. There is a new master--Charles H. Taylor, Henry Charles Lea Professor of Mediaeval History; the Junior common room is about to be soundproofed and renovated; and the University has at long last decided to improve the appearance of the courtyard--shrubs, flower beds, and a Riviera-like sun terrace are contemplated...
Perfume of Exhaust Fumes. Frenchbred Lilly was "just eighteen when I stood (for the first time) at the corner of 34th Street and Broadway" and "breathed in the perfume of exhaust fumes . . . sweeter to me than the headiest essences of the flower fields of France." Few of the natives shared this preference for exhaust fumes, so Lilly was obliged to go to work cultivating the headier essences, and is now a rich, renowned and happily married hatter-"Lilly Dache from 9 to 5 and Mrs. [Jean] Despres from 5 to 9." Both personalities have contributed to this book...