Word: painted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...walk the razor's edge between good-natured boasts of superiority and spiteful self-gratification. Yalies are wont to espouse the stereotype of the condescending Harvard pseudo-intellectual, as in the following excerpt from a Yale student's report of the first Harvard-Yale game: "If we were to paint the typical Harvard student, we should draw him as a gentlemanly fellow with a thin veneering of respectibility, and an amazing amount of superficial knowledge, who, angry at a man would think, 'he's a low fellah, you know,' ... and who, immediately after death, would ... congratulate the Almighty for having...
Steinberg tries without much success to paint Rayburn as a courageous defender of liberal principles. For example, he notes approvingly Rayburn's agreement with Harry Truman's remark that "Nixon probably never read the Constitution, and if by chance he had he did not understand it." At the same time, he minimizes Rayburn's support of Truman's unconstitutional seizure of the nation's steel mills during the Korean War and of Wilson's Sedition Act, under which hundreds of citizens were jailed for denouncing the United States' role in World...
When Dylan walked on, about thirty minutes into the show, the energy in the Civic Center surged. Wearing a black vest and a dark, flower-adorned sombrero, Dylan acknowledged the crowd's standing ovation with a small wave. He lit into "When I Paint My Masterpiece," an ironic song, loosely based on the scene in Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night where Dick Diver wanders around Rome and decides he will never be a great writer...
...studio isn't expensive, though, and she very much wants to be a full-time painter one day. She likes the Concord Building, too, because it is old and has a nice atmosphere. It's kind of gray, actually, and Warner has to admit that gray dominates her paintings. "It's the mood I like to paint in," she says. "I like to play colors against a neutral background," She hasn't sold any of her paintings yet, but hopes one day to have a one-man show...
...Leder continues to dabble in this and that, still searching, for five hours each day. He likes to look out past his easel at the Square down below, but he doesn't paint it. He worries sometimes about being a painter and a priest at the same time--they're really quite similar, you see, but sometimes people don't seem to understand that. Actually Leder's goals as a priest and as a painter are practically identical, and in his own mind, at least, he has it all worked out quite well. "I strive," he says, "for communication with...