Word: pellucid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Best thing in The Sculptor's Way is Author Putnam's pellucid outline of human and animal anatomy. An acknowledged expert on the subject, she believes that sculptors should know it thoroughly before they go in for compositions in mere "mass" or abstraction. Her favorite point: that any animal's bony structure is essentially the same as man's. A horse's hocks are his heels; birds have knees...
Sirs: In reading your pellucid stories of Japanese state problems, particularly of those in connection with the shooting by ambitious, 23-year-old Tameo Sagoya of Premier Hamaguchi in a Tokyo railway station (TIME, Nov. 24), I do not recall any mention of the recent exorcising ceremonies performed there (in the station) by Buddhist high priests. Reports Graphic, Manila, P. I. weekly, for March 4: "This station was a hoodoo, a place tabooed by the superstitious residents of Tokyo. The rite was performed for the purpose of driving away the evil spirits. . . . "When the railway station was nearing completion...