Word: pecked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WILLIAM B. PECK Endicott...
William Michael Harnett. Trompe-l'Oeil is an off-beat school of art that goes back to the legendary Greek, Zeuxis, who was said to have painted grapes so realistically that birds swooped down to peck at them. Roman and Pompeian decorators used fool-the-eye murals to give the illusion of spaciousness to narrow rooms. By the 17th and 18th centuries, the technique had turned into a whimsical exercise in craftsmanship, and it still enchants many realistic painters throughout the world...
Both William A. Peck '55 and Thomas Bisbee '55, Secretaries of Kirkland and Winthrop, believed that the Wintergreen-Rinehart match would be anti-climactic after the Yale games...
...There is a natural let-down in interest as soon as the Yale game is over," Peck explained. "It would be pointless to play the game them...
Paul A. Freund, Charles Stebbins Fairchild Professor of International Law, thought Harlan to be a slightly stronger candidate than Peck or Phillips. "His grandfather was on the Supreme Court, you know," he said. "If I were making a bet I'd place it on Harlan...