Word: markely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like a mail-order catalogue, the show had a little of everything-from the sharp literalness of an Edward Hopper Civil War scene, to a tangled, crisscross abstraction by Mark Tobey. There were the sanitary surfaces of Georgia O'Keeffe, the fluid mists of John Marin, a pasteboard street scene by Stuart Davis. A few canvases with less familiar trademarks made gallery-goers look twice: Joe Jones's "Departure" from a grim and desolate wasteland; Henry Koerner's tired old couple, huddled in a cart, gazing numbly at the ruin about them; Theodore Lux Feininger...
...Curator Mark Harrington of the Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, considers the house "the most interesting and exciting Pinto Man discovery to date." He thinks it was built about 8,000 years ago, when the Mojave Desert was a wooded, fertile land, teeming with game. The people who lived in it were obviously no mere nomads, but led a semi-settled life, probably living in tight little clans. No cooking had been done in the house, but near it was the charcoal and burned-bone fragments of a large campfire site, apparently shared by several families...
...ground to avoid jamming. (Said Eddie: "I had plenty of horse under me when I moved up, but he got a little tired. He didn't have anything left at the end.") Even so, Citation finished two lengths in front. His time tied stablemate Armed's track mark (1:49 1/5) for the mile and an eighth. And his winnings for the day raised his season's earnings to a one-year record...
Nelson ("The Doc") Hume had started the school himself, and for 33 years had been its headmaster. Canterbury School, on a hill above New Milford, Conn., blossomed into a tony Roman Catholic version of Groton and St. Mark's. Its ambition was to turn out Catholic boys for Ivy League colleges, without neglecting their religious training. There were no monks or priests about: Canterbury calls itself the only Catholic prep school in the U.S. run exclusively by laymen. Doc Hume, an imposing, bushy-browed man of booming voice, taught the boys apologetics and Christian ethics and led them...
Harper's was the first magazine to buy stories by Mark Twain and Sherwood Anderson; today, less literary than its friendly rival, the Atlantic, it is also more concerned with contemporary history. Allen frequently consults his good friend, the Atlantic's Editor Ted Weeks. Each regards his magazine as one of culture's last bastions against engulfing tides of vulgarity and mass thinking. Harper's, Allen says, is a forum for the "unorganized, unrecognized, unorthodox and unterrified," though it is rarely as bold as all that...