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...teaches at Yale, where he had earlier studied under Josef Albers. Modest in scale and completely unrhetorical, his pictures seem European-the work, perhaps, of a less mature Balthus, minus the overtones of perverse eroticism. Their strength lies partly in the extreme discipline of organization that Bailey can muster. He is a perfectionist, so much so that the right hand of the girl in Listener had to be scraped off and repainted "about 100 times" before he was satisfied with it (perhaps he shouldn't have been). His subjects, whether eggs and cups on a table or a seated...
...Belmont Park last October, however, Ack Ack was sidelined with a case of colic. In his stead, Whittingham went with Cougar II, a horse that Ack Ack had beaten with ease earlier in the season. Cougar II breezed home five lengths ahead of the best field the East could muster. Though Cougar II was dropped to third place for cutting off one of his rivals on the rail, Whittingham was confident that "I proved my point...
...people of Bangladesh will need all the joy that they can muster in the next few months. The world's new est nation is also one of its poorest...
Alas, too true. But these days, bad news arrives thicker and faster than the mind can follow, or bear to contemplate. Often it seems that all one can muster in response is, at best, some variation on Hamlet's simple formula for mourning-"Absent thee from felicity awhile"-or at worst, numb weariness and futility...
...while in an American D.P. camp, Kantor got the sketches together and created in a single bound book a visual diary of what he had seen, with brief captions, first in Czech, then in what he describes as "the best Prague highschool English I could muster." The Book of Alfred Kantor is simply a facsimile reproduction of that diary: more than 150 small and mostly cramped sketches that had sat in Kantor's library for years until friends persuaded him to have it published...