Word: pencilings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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About a month ago they decided the new life was too much like the old life, circa the Depression. Someone asked Max for a $5 pencil sharpener. Max replied: Let them use razor blades...
...moral of the story, as Max should have known after studying the contradictions of capitalism, is that any journalist denied access to a pencil sharpener will surely find another way to get the lead...
...FRIEND, OBADIAH, by Brinton Turkic (Viking; $3.95). A sequel to Obadiah the Bold, the book shows the friendship between a sea gull and a young Quaker boy on the island of Nantucket. Splendid watercolor and pencil illustrations...
...born in 1776 John Constable cherished it with an early and sure instinct. "The sound of water escaping from milldams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts and brickwork-I love such things," he wrote. "I had often thought of pictures of them before I ever touched a pencil...
...with it a photo of Wolfe-as-impudent-baby--faced-cherub, a photo which seems to affirm the purported image. Yet, it bears little relation to the man today. Wolfe's features are those of one much older, an adult, in fact. They are sharply delineated as if fine pencil lines have been added to what had previously existed only as a rather rough cartoon. His hands are pale, they melt into his white suit. If it were not for his relaxed gestures, they might look like those of Uriah Heep. Although his hair--almost red--is moderately long...