Word: hewn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dickens takes the count after approximately two minutes and 35 seconds of the first act. As the curtain goes up on Sean Kenny's somber hewn-wood set, a dozen or so boys are released from their kennel-like pen. They slink up to their empty gruel bowls like wan, spiritless animals. For a long instant, a pang of pathos hangs upon the air. Then the game little troupers raise their obviously steak-fed voices and wham a sappy-happy song, Food, Glorious Food, right up into the dingy rafters...
...leaf clover and gazes imploringly at the ceiling; he is called The Wish. The pieces are both funny and sad, a bit crude and yet full of vitality. On view at Manhattan's Graham Gallery, they are the work of the Czech-born sculptor Ludvik Durchanek: a rough-hewn talent of considerable versatility and force...
Gathered together to pay tribute to the right-mindedness of Virginia's Judge Howard Smith, 79, the leading citizens of South Carolina cheered lustily as former Secretary of State Jimmy Byrnes presented the autocratic chairman of the House Rules Committee with an eminently appropriate gift: a gavel hewn from a walnut tree planted by John C. Calhoun...
Some of its little, rough-hewn houses date back to the 16th century; its oldest hotel, the Monte Rosa, was opened in 1838, is a triumph of Gemütlichkeit at $8 a day; full pension, in high season. But like many another old resort, it is caught up in the new boom; in the past five years, the amount of hotel space has doubled, so that now the village can take care of 12,000 winter vacationers at one time...
...dust and debris were quickly forgotten when the festival's star performer strode onto the makeshift, wood-planked stage. Master Cellist Pablo Casals, a sprightly 84, brought concertgoers leaping from their rough-hewn seats in a rising ovation. The aging artist beamed. "Where did all those people come from?" he asked. They came from Haifa to the north, from kibbutzim in the shadow of Mount Carmel, from army headquarters in Tel Aviv-and they came chiefly to hear Pablo Casals...