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Sometime toward the end of the Elizabethen Age, Anthony Munday presented a play for the approval of the National Board of Review, a position then held by Sir Edmund Tilney. Good Sir Edmund--whether from sheer spite or momentary indisposition, reporters were unable to ascertain--grasped his blue pencil with a shriek of rage, and by means of sparkling marginal notes commanded drastic revision. Four accomplished dramatists hurried to his assistance, bore away the torn and bleeding playlet and revamped it to a more conventional pattern. Fortunately for modern scholars, one of the attending surgeons left the results...
...during the summer. About sixty are shown, twenty of which are lent for the exhibition by Mrs. Edward D. Brandegee. The drawings include the work of some of the greatest masters of the Italian, French, Spanish, Dutch, Flemish, and German schools. Among them there are very fine and delicate pencil drawings by lugres, a drawing in red chalk by Correggio, wonderful pen drawings by Rembrandt, wash drawings by Bernini and Giulio Romano, and drawings in color by Rubens and Holbein...
Spare the blue pencil keep the errors...
...with the counsel and assistance of Professor R. B. Perry, G. '97, and Dr. Benjamin Rand '79 of the philosophical department at the University, because of the unusual interest atatching to the annotations by Professor James which appear in them. They contain numerous marginal comments and interlineations, mostly in pencil, which throw light on the development of James's philosophical ideas and on the influences which shaped his thought...
...work well in the same house, but they help each other. Apparently their methods of procedure are quite different. Mr. Norris is hard-pressed during the period of creation. He fights for the right word. Mrs. Norris, on the other hand, says that the enjoys every moment of putting pencil to paper. At her best Kathleen Norris can present a fine, moving, startlingly real picture of life. At her worst she becomes caught in describing the minutiae of daily routine. A blue pencil would greatly have improved Certain People of Importance. Possibly Mrs. Norris knows this now. She is working...