Word: glazes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the accounts bore the glaze of battle, the slightly romantic touch of excited and hurried newsmen. An ancient Norman, dozing in his house, was nearer the earthy truth of France. A correspondent asked him what the people thought of De Gaulle. The old man, authentically sour, growled that Normans cared more about the price of pigs...
...there are strong emotional content and a sharp realism which careful reading shows to be but a shell. Bruce Barton's ". . . And We'll Do It Again . . ." is a skillfully handled sketch of the mixed emotions of a group of selectees on their way to camp. While Andrew Glaze has contributed an unusual short short which suffers only from unnecessary foreshadowing of the conclusion during the development...
Last week fog swirled over the Black Hills of South Dakota, over the sides of Mount Rushmore, ice formed a dripping glaze over four gigantic stone faces. Mount Rushmore had been finished long ago, but the 14-year chippings from these granite visages made it look unfinished: under their chins the mountainside fell away in a gigantic dribble of scree. And now the figures of these four great U. S. Presidents -Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt-would never be finished by their creator. For the man who had devoted nearly a quarter of his life to the task...
...Wood has long carried a heavy teaching schedule, and loved it. But for an artist who can command $10,000 a canvas (price of Parson Weems' Fable and Sentimental Ballad), teaching at $4,000 a year is a definite sacrifice. Moreover Artist Wood paints slowly, fussing, niggling, spreading glaze after glaze to achieve the hard candylike effect that is his specialty. After a period of financial and marital difficulties (he has been divorced), Grant Wood resolved to take a year off to paint. Last week, a thoroughly happy man, he was producing once more, had enjoyed doing a portrait...
Leverett House's dramatic club presented "Two in the Bush," by William W. Tyng '41, last night. An audience of more than 250 saw the production in the House dining hall. William G. Manson '41, Wallace Hamilton '41, Andrew L. Glaze '42, and Howard W. Young '42 were featured performers...