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...with drawings and some 15,000 sentences showing how words are used, the dictionary is simple, easy to use. Handiest short cut: an inverted e (a), called the schwa (from Hebrew), takes the place of eight symbols customarily used to represent the same sound-the unaccented vowel in about, pencil, lemon, etc. On his definition of hearing Dr. Thorndike wasted no big words: "Sense by which sound is perceived. The old man's hearing is poor...
Edward Greenberg's surrealist montage, entitled "MozART is a five pointed STAR (arzica)" is perhaps the most strikingly radical work shown, but it is quite balanced by James Bishop's meticulous, if not too characterful, pencil portraits. The range between is thoroughly covered, and one can pick out Kenneth Henry's impressionistic "Study of a Model", Barbara O'Neill's powerful use of facial planes, taken from Cezanne, and J. W. Lample's "Still Life" very much a la Matisse...
Because his parents were poor, Earl was not coddled. When he was six, his mother "drove" him to school, where he suffered agonies. Grasping a pencil was for him what tightrope walking is to a normal man. Although he dared not eat in public till he was 18 or 19, he once picked the lock of his cousin's Model-T Ford with a hairpin, drove carefully around the block. In 1918, while he was at college, Earl's mother died and the following year his father killed himself. Instead of going to pieces, the crippled orphan...
...tunbellied Author Hendrik Willem van Loon. For a portraitist with such a good address, Painter Klinghoffer is medium-priced, will do a muscled, Michelangelesque drawing for $60, a Rembrandtesque oil for $650. An expert at accurate anatomy and spitting imagery, Artist Klinghoffer has been working with charcoal, pen and pencil ever since she can remember. Says she, with a London-influenced Austrian accent: "I drew like that before I ever sore any old masters...
...uncouth bum," he bought a case of whiskey and a second-hand cash register, opened a speakeasy in Manhattan's famed Fifties. One night, after some of his customers had got into a skull-cracking brawl that brought the cops swarming in. Barkeep Madden, plenty irate, took his pencil from behind his ear. poured out a piece of his mind, pasted it on the mirror behind his bar: "Just for your information we run a respectful joint in here we dont allow no blows struck some people do not have the manners...