Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Planning grew gradually under Perkins, and in 1948 the integrated first year program finally enunciated the aims of the triumvirate. The planners, who alternated in their training between Littauer and its social science curses and Hunt with its design courses, were to be the theorists who told the architects what was needed where and why. The landscape architects were concerned with the actual physical planning, 'what was needed for certain soils and rocks in both back years, highways, and large factories. And the architects, with the information and programs of the other two were to do their actual construction designs...
Another short poem by Ziegler--who does very well at this--and a well-written but tedious account of a fox hunt from the fox's eyes lead the reader to the last two stories, both of which are rather mis-begotten efforts. One is about a dour Maine lobsterman who waits patiently for his father's death to be willed his fishing boat only to have the will leave the boat's engine to his uncle. This is hardly an intrinsically amusing situation...
...spritely elders were still on the go. Former Vice President John Nance Garner left his home in Uvalde and took to the hills of southwest Texas to celebrate his 84th birthday with a deer hunt. In Washington, Clark Griffith, owner-president of the Washington Senators, celebrated his 83rd birthday with some 180 friends and fans, including Chief Justice Fred Vinson and Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick. Griffith's birthday wish: to see his team win another American League pennant (it has won three since he started as manager in 1912) before he retires...
...retiring Victorian bachelor named William Harnett was probably the best of all U.S. still-life painters. His After the Hunt is the public favorite at San Francisco's California Palace of the Legion of Honor. Harnett painted it for the Paris Salon of 1885, "to discover whether or not the line of work I had been pursuing had or had not artistic merit." Paris liked the picture...
...hints to aspiring still-life painters: "I always group my figures so as to try and make an artistic composition . . . The chief difficulty I have found has not been the grouping of my models but their choice . . . Take for instance the handle of the old sword [in After the Hunt) . . . Had I chosen a sword with an ivory handle of a different tint, the tone of the picture would have been ruined." Then with stunning inconsistency he adds: "In painting from still life, I do not closely imitate nature...