Word: lyme
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...therefore, overpriced arts in history. The exquisite American impressionist school, which followed in the light footsteps of the French, remains undervalued. Yet museum directors-sensitive to a growing popular interest in American painting-have been snapping up such characteristic examples as Childe Hassam's Church at Old Lyme, Conn, and Maurice Prendergast's Sunset and Sea Fog (opposite...
...studied the light on the church at Old Lyme as assiduously as Monet had studied the rosier light on Rouen cathedral, yet no one would compare the invariably pleasant Hassam with trail-blazing Monet. Where Monet had created new problems to solve, Hassam skillfully ducked old ones. For example, the clock faces in his Church could not have been painted in sharp focus without violating his soft focus view of the building, nor could they have been done in soft focus without frustrating man's natural urge to read clocks-so he simply hid them in leaves...
ADRIENNE TYTLA East Lyme, Conn...
BEVERLY PARTRIDGE SHERMAN Old Lyme, Conn...
...language so fascinated him that, in his spare time, Headmaster Marples of Wolstanton Grammar School at Newcastle under Lyme has been jotting down campus words and finding out how they came to be. Last week Britons were chuckling over the result: a thin, bright little book entitled University Slang...