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...five artists imported last week raised no questions at all. Four of them had painted New Englanders or New England scenes, ranging from George P. A. Healy's glowering portrait of Daniel Webster to a lighthearted Bathing, Marblehead by Maurice Prendergast. There was a Maine scene by Winslow Homer, and the brooding Houses of 'Squam Light, Cape Ann by Realist Edward Hopper. Finally, with the President's home ground taken care of, came a typical Jacqueline touch. In choosing two rare Italian scenes in watercolor by John Singer Sargent-Venice's La Dogana (Customs House...
...ODYSSEY (474 pp.) - Homer, translated by Robert Fitzgerald -Doubleday...
...first looking into Fitzgerald's Homer, the modern reader will be less astonished than was Keats when he looked into Chapman's.* Poet Robert Fitzgerald has again put into English the very old story of the most indestructible of Greeks. Odysseus was a very Greek hero, "formidable for guile in peace and war," "the great tactician,'' "skilled in all ways of contending," "all craft and gall," admired as much for his divinely inspired chicanery as for his handiwork with spear, bow or tiller. Although favored by Pallas Athena, he was not a superhuman figure...
Probably one of the most bizarre beginnings of a varsity career was turned in by Garibaldi, a sophomore. A relief hurler in the Lynchburg contest, Garibaldi gave up a triple and a homer to the first two batters he faced. Then he struck out 10 men in four innings. (Yarbro was credited with...
...Homer was indeed one of the Special Artists of the Civil War (with Harper's Weekly] ; for a sample of his work, see cut. However, he did only a few on-the-scene drawings. They were better as art than as reporting...