Word: homerically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sophomore race basketballer Homer D. Peabody, Jr. of Winthrop House was second to Marvin with 190 votes. He was followed by football passer Robert A. James of Adams House with...
...painting were done by a brush alone instead of the individual holding that brush, Winslow Homer's watercolors, now on exhibit in Fogg Museum, would justly deserve to be called great art. In fact, if his paintings were the only ones being shown; if there were no means of making a comparative judgment, it is possible that a person could be fooled into believing that Homer, the old American stand-by, was equal to his popular reputation. There are a few works by other painters in this collection of watercolors, however, and it is upon the shoulders of Marin...
...Homer gained popularity, and justly so, because of his unusual technical facility, and his paintings prove him to be a fine craftsman. Really good art, however, does not consist in mere excellence of handling a give medium. Homer uses color well, and his paintings are beautiful, but there is no mark of actual and reverberating content in his work. Marin, on the other hand, with his contrapuntal placement of emphatic colors, arrives at an emotional shorthand which leads him to pointed interpretations of scenes and aspects of nature. His "Mt. Chocorua" exemplifies this phase of his painting and also serves...
...third, Bowen singled to start things off for the Big Red and scored ahead of George Polzer when the latter poled out a long homer far over Gene Lovett's head in deep left field. Healey was driven from the box in the fourth as Finneran and Brown connected for singles with a sacrifice hit by Sickles sandwiched in between to account...
Family scenes, life on the farm, whaling ships, the evils of drink, in fact almost all phases of nineteenth century New England are available for serious and often whimsical scrutiny. A small piece by Winslow Homer entitled "Class Day at Harvard" should provide much amusement for seniors who are about to take part in that annual function a few weeks from now; and the Currier and Ives print called "Kiss Me Quick" is a fine example of a Victorian method of amatory advance--now unfortunately outmoded. On the other hand, there are many paintings in the exhibit which are worth...