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...length nude boys seen through transparent green water; After the Bath, a young woman emerging from the sea in a clinging yellow bathing suit, while her swain stands behind, holding a white sheet in which to wrap her; Beaching the Boat, Valencia, peasant sailors guiding three yoke of brown oxen, dragging the full-bellied sailboat through the surf. Sorolla is also represented in the Luxembourg, the Berlin National Gallery, the Venice, Madrid and Buenos Aires Museums, the Chicago Art Institute, and in many private collections of the United States and Europe. But his crowning work is the great series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Sorolla | 8/20/1923 | See Source »

...experiments so far have been done on men. Corresponding operations with women (suggested by Gertrude Atherton in Black Oxen) are possible, but more difficult, owing to the greater inaccessibility of the female gonads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Voronoff and Steinach | 7/30/1923 | See Source »

...very good touch at the beginning when the great, long column of clumsy schooners is waiting for the command to be off. The leader of the expedition hands his boy a great bull-whip and as the youngster cracks it over the backs of the first yoke of oxen his father tells him to remember that he started the first expedition to Oregon back in '48. The scene at the crossing of the Platte River is beautifully done, and gives more of a thrill than any of the other big moments, and there were many. In the Indian dances...

Author: By A. B. D., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 5/23/1923 | See Source »

From those sad few of us who are struggling to flee from the Ulysses-Black Oxen-Jurgen mania, Francis Brett Young's latest book draws forth a sigh of relief. In "Pilgrim's Rest" there is realism to be sure, but it deals with the loneliness of the African jungle, and the ups and downs of life in an African gold-mine town. Like its contemporaries got it is outspoken, and yet it leaves one with the comforting feeling that perhaps the present-day light novel has not completely fallen into the hands of a corporation of psycho-sexualists...

Author: By A. B. D., | Title: THE CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 4/27/1923 | See Source »

Despite his age and extensive experience not strictly pugilistic, Jack Johnson proved his assertions that he is still prominent among fistic black oxen by tying Luis Angel Firpo, Argentine skull cracker, in a flock of knots in a "workout" match in New York, prior to Firpo's successful encounter with Bill Brennan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Jack Johnson vs. Firpo | 3/24/1923 | See Source »

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