Word: newel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jury at Chicago's Art Institute gave Richard Talaber, 26, the top prize for just such a picture. At Boston's elaborate summer Arts Festival, the Grand Prize went to a sculptor, Gilbert Franklin, for his safely modern Beach Figure, clean-lined and anonymous as a newel post. But the public has yet to acquire the jurist's inhibitions. Critics see form first in a work of art; the average layman sees content. At Boston's Festival, viewers voted overwhelmingly for Gardner Cox's Robert Frost. Cox's portrait might be a bit fuzzy...
...dining-room walls are paneled in fine, carved walnut. The ceiling of the great hallway is a Gothic arch of wood ribs with gilded bosses representing the heads of such men as Shakespeare, Socrates and George Washington. The stairway, lighted with bronze statues holding a gaselier on each newel post, led to the private upstairs chapel, later converted into a billiard room...
Gravem found the pretty strokes of Sam Schoonmaker a bit too tough as he lost, 6-2, 4-6, 6-0 to the Yale number three man. Heckscher tired badly in the third set of his match with Newel Augur...
...place; shadow is another." Mainly through color, Cézanne recreated the deep sunny space of L'Estaque, a canvas which combines the repose of a pyramid with the lightness of air. Through color he made Madame Cézanne look fixed and solid as a newel post (she was a patient poser but a flighty creature, seldom home), and made the ineptly drawn Bathers a warm evocation of leisurely summer bliss...
Before they hit the water last week, the crewmen had been working at the Newel Boathouse machines and in the tank almost since fall registration. Conscientious training, Tom Bolles, the return of some veterans, and the appearance of good sophomore material should add up to another of the fine crews Harvard has been blessed with for more than a decade, but Bolles cautions against any judgments except that of the clock...