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Here was a precious situation for An-thropology?an utterly indigenous, primitive people who had developed language, religion and customs from anciently lost seeds ? which Anthropologist Petrullo with pencil and camera zealously documented. From the pristine Yawalapiti and their neighbors may be learned much about
Burgeois Germany has crumpled before Grosz's terrible pencil, his contemptuous and exact eye. Frequent victims are bull-necked burghers, drunken women with raddled skin and pendulous breasts, fops with snub noses and muskrat mouths, gaunt marble-jawed soldiers, starving children, slatternmouthed old shrews. All are made contemptible, rarely laughable. The pictures look like a child's scrawls, full of scratchy, distracting detail. But critics perceive the basis of sound craftsmanship, understand Grosz's potent European influence. Knowing that satirists usually resemble their favorite object of satire, pupils at the Art Students' League were wondering which...
Your issue of May 9 article "O. C. D. Housed'' refers to TIME pencils. What may this be? a special pencil manufactured for TIME? a pencil TIME likes to call its own but is actually a standard brand? one of particular coloring or lead...
...TIME pencils, fat, soft, red and labeled, are Eberhard Faber products, 7 in. long, .418 in. diameter, .165 lead. At least two other companies make the same type (Joseph Dixon Crucible Co. claims to have originated it). They are used mostly in grade schools and newspaper offices, bear trade names like "Elementary," "Childlend," "Beginners." To any subscriber in good standing who so requests, one good TIME pencil will be sent gratis...
...knocked groggy, the President took a hand. He called the Democratic members of the Finance Committee to a night conference in the White House. After they had left he heard disturbing news about raids on the dollar abroad, was unable to sleep. At 5:30 a.m. he arose, took pencil & paper, wrote diligently for three hours. At 10:30 a.m. he told the Cabinet he would address the Senate at noon, an impromptu procedure such as none at the White House could recall witnessing. From a special platform set up at the reading clerk's desk the President voiced...