Word: michaels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Michael Weighing the Souls (opposite), a side panel on an altar of a small church in the Ribes Valley, was painted (by an unknown artist) with all the suspense of a morality play acted out upon a stage. The good saint is seen in the act of weighing souls with the Devil, before a splendid red background decorated with gold stars. Michael has caught the Devil cheating by tipping the scales, and sadly points a shaming finger. Yet to be discovered is the lesser devil compounding the crime by tugging on the weight devil's tail...
Yoshiaki Shimizu, who demonstrated his own versatility and high degree of competence at the Dudley exhibit last spring, is represented in this collection by a brush and ink drawing. Michael Biddle's humorous and highly personal conception of two particularly grotesque individuals, titled simply Cartoon, contrasts strongly with another very direct statment, Tom William's Big City Vignette, or with David Austin's sketch of more glamorous terrain, the Grand Canal of Venice...
...with God, I have not dared to eliminate much." The collection is sprinkled with big names: Pusey, Conant, S. N. Behrman, Van Wyck Brroks, Dos Passos, Learned Hand, Mark DeWolfe Howe, Senator John F. Kennedy, and John P. Marquand. Also are two having more recent experience of Harvard College: Michael Dean Butler '56, and Jonathan Kozol '58, who contribute two of the longest pieces. The thirty-nine essays are often too personal to be of much interest, but generally the book is of interest to anyone having attended Harvard...
...JOHN D. MICHAEL Washington...
Having thus forewarned his readers, wealthy, fun-loving Fenwick Keyser, 45, a onetime Baltimore Sun reporter, gave the Page One play to a straight-faced report that County Executive Officer Michael J. Birmingham had been jailed "on charges of treason and sabotage." Listing other so-called "deviationists" and "disloyal leaders," the Union News ran pictures of two county officials under the caption WANTED. In an adjoining column Editor Keyser reported solemnly that a well-known Baltimore County contractor had "committed suicide by jumping into one of his own cement mixers" and had become "an integral part of the new wing...