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...worth attacking, that they liked the author and met him frequently, and to be nice to him in private and publicly nasty would seem uncalled for.'' One example of the deceptive consequences of this attitude was the novels of the late Charles (The Fountain] Morgan. ''His last two or three novels," notes Spender, "were received with almost the same praise as his earlier ones. It was only apparent when he died, from the obituaries, how the bottom had quietly fallen out of his reputation...
...younger brother Sigmund for several years worked as his assistant. For the current show, Basel could find only a handful of oils and sketches that may have been by Sigmund, while Hans the Elder is represented by 79. The most dazzling is the famed Fountain of Life (see color), which once belonged to the wife of Britain's Charles...
...Alabama held her little pupil's hand under a flowing pump spout and manually spelled out the word "water" upon the palm of blind, deaf Helen Keller. Last week Miss Keller, almost 80, went to Radcliffe College for the in formal dedication of the Anne Sullivan Memorial Fountain, which flows in the Helen Keller Garden that was presented to her at the 50th reunion of her class ('04). Before feeling the water, Miss Kel ler smiled mistily, read a Braille inscrip tion at the back of the fountain: "In memory of Anne Sullivan, teacher extraordinary, who beginning with...
...friend, "that Scotch is the perfect antidote for platinum poisoning"), Kinkaid, 65, has a reputation for driving his students, often summoned them to his house on weekends to play. He himself is so fascinated by the production of sound that he has been known to sit at a soda fountain blowing through a straw in an effort to alter its tone. Even after his retirement from the orchestra, he will continue to teach. His replacement: James Pellerite, formerly of the Detroit Symphony. He is, of course, a student of William Morris Kinkaid...
...drawing, drawing," but she learned to be grateful for it. In 1934 she leased her present studio, and Union Square became her subject. She sketched the lounging bums ("America's only 'leisure class' "), drew the men and women hurrying past a drugstore, or bending over a fountain to get a quick drink, or just eating a hotdog. The waitresses and working girls about the square had a special fascination, for they, too, represented movement. In the U.S., says Isabel Bishop, giving an artist's nod to sociology, the working girl has no intention of standing still...