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...Pilgrim Hawk is as good as anyone need hope. It is a superbly turned specimen of that long-short form which Story Editor Whit Burnett likes to call The Novella. "Simple" only in profile and in the manner of its telling, the tale has symbolic and psychological structures that are no simpler than the internal cross-flickerings of a poem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fresh Start | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

...novella," say Editors Burnett and Foley, is a story whose development requires more length and leisure than the short story, and yet "is in the nature of the short story in its unity of effect." Last week they demonstrated some of the possibilities of the form in a collection of five "novellas" chosen from Story magazine, which they edit. Although the book was launched to the accompaniment of resounding praise by short-story experts, any one of whose superlatives could qualify as the blurb of the week, readers less attentive to the nuances of the art might have difficulty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Long Stories | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...died in 1492, was one of the leaders of the Umbrian school. Pierro, besides being an artist of distinction, has a great reputation as a mathematician. In 1439 he was apprenticed to Domenic Veneziano, and assisted him in painting the chapel of Sant Egidio in Santa Mari Novella, Florence. He was engaged in painting a fresco in Rimini in 1451. His most important series of frescoes are those in the choir of San Francesco, in Arezzo, depicting the history of the Cross...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRANCESCA PAINTING NOW ON EXHIBITION IN FOGG MUSEUM | 12/20/1916 | See Source »

...leading painters of the Umbrian school. Piero, besides being a painter of distinction, is said to have been thoroughly educated in mathematics. In 1439 he was apprenticed to Domenico Veneziano, and assisted him in painting the Chapel of Sant' Egidio in Santa Maria Novella, in Florence. His most important extant series of frescoes are those in the choir of San Francesco, in Arezzo, depicting the History of the Cross...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IMPORTANT 15TH CENTURY PAINTING AT FOGG MUSEUM | 1/11/1916 | See Source »

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