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Princeton's big story is its defense, led by netminder Melanie Orpen, who boasts a league-leading 0.47 goals-against-average. She had amassed seven straight shutouts before the Quakers got the best of her last weekend...
...Pound and Joyce no less than Picasso, Stravinsky or André Breton. John, however, continued to paint like a swashbuckling hedonist. His drawings of the figure had dash and virtuosity, even in his student years at the Slade School. He was, in the view of friends like Sir William Orpen, the inordinately successful painter, the best draftsman to work in England since Van Dyck. The last modern painter to affect John's work was Paul Gauguin, whose flat, hieratic patterning was echoed in decorative figure compositions. John's favorite subjects remained the two main women in his life...
...outfield, though, it's a different matter. The only returning letterman hit .187 last year and Jumbo fans are hoping sophomore Dennis Orpen, reputedly a hot major-league prospect, can take up some of the slack...
...William Orpen, and A. Wordsworth Thompson's Civil War battlescape, Cannonading on the Potomac. The Green Room's watered-silk walls support a gallery of 15 oils, including David Martin's reposed Ben Franklin watched over by a bust of Isaac Newton, and Henry Inman's winsome 1842 portrait of Angelica Van Buren, President Van Buren's daughter-in-law, with a view of Hiram Powers' bust of the President himself in the background...
Prime Minister's Pointers. Churchill's chief friends in the art world were the English academic masters Sir John Lavery, Walter Sickert, Sir William Orpen. From Lavery he took lessons, from Sickert and Orpen, advice and encouragement. All of them influenced him. But one day in the south of France he met two impressionists at work and talked with them. Of their effect on him he later wrote: "Look also at the blue of the Mediterranean. How can you depict and record it? Certainly not by any single color that was ever manufactured. The only way in which...