Word: pencilings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Drop a Pencil. The language training at Monterey is the most intense in the U.S., and students joke: "If you drop a pencil in class and take time to pick it up, you've lost an hour's material." Classes run for six hours a day five days a week, interrupted by two two-week vacations throughout the year. Students are expected to spend three hours or more daily on homework...
...endless searches for new techniques, like musicians looking for new sonorities. It is still possible to get touching music from the piano. With oil and brush, you can tell a story. You don't need 40 tons of cement. Give a man a piece of paper and a pencil, and you'll see what he can produce with means so simple and humble." What Alechinsky does is to turn man's half-tormented, half-bemused mind inside out, exorcising, yet joyously expressing, the gremlins that make life imperfect and therefore bearable...
Conley has talent, go see for yourself, but he should find himself a playwright, a director, and a red pencil before he tries again...
Churchillian Lot. But before the hors d'oeuvres, business came first-which was apparently just what the audience wanted. They gasped when the first offering, an 8-in. by 61-in. pencil and crayon drawing by Pissarro, drew a walloping $2,300. From then on, there was no stopping them. Bids came in volleys as Chagall's La Madone du Village shot up to $82,500 (v. his previous all-time high of $77,500). Bonnard's opalescent bath peekaboo at his wife, La Glace Haute, went to the Carnegie Institute...
...only historians will be equal to the task of excavation. The memoirs have been assembled like a scrapbook, by a man who could not bear to leave anything out. They sorely lack the editor's pencil-and an editor's restraint...