Word: pencils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arcand, now 48, is a lean, brooding six-footer with an ascetic face and a pencil-line mustache. When I called, he was wearing a pale green woolen sport shirt, brown tie, brown trousers and shoes. In a corner of his small living room were his typewriter and a table piled with pamphlets and books. In another corner was a radio-phonograph with a fair-sized collection of classical records. This room opens into a combined bedroom and studio. On the wall was a large painting of Arcand in a brown shirt. A crucifix was beside...
...outfit, a jacket with pencil-slim skirt by M-G-M Designer Irene, was so tight that the hobbled model could not walk down the stairs in it. A complicated "Toga for Travel," by Bonnie Cashin, consisted of a black dress under an enormous brown knee-length cape, set off by a matching sun helmet and candy-striped spats. Another cold weather number was a white fleece overcoat, by Elois Jenssen, electrically heated by batteries carried in two side pockets (with an extension cord that could be plugged in on planes or trains...
...poster was tattered; the top right hand corner had been torn off, as if someone had tried to wrench the whole thing down, and over it had been clumsily scrawled in pencil, "Vendus comme les autres" (sold out, like the others...
...dealing mathematically with the voluminous statistics confronting them. The genius of the calculator is that it can deal with many variables operating simultaneously. In the fluid and changing battleground of economics, sociology, and social relations, one or two unknowns added to the equation render it practically insoluble by pencil and paper. For perhaps the first time the social scientist has the opportunity to face, instead of "assume" the conditions of his problem. Just because he never has struggled with precise reality before is no reason why the Provost's committee shouldn't give him a chance--on the calculator...
...sympathetic, soft-pencil sketches of bitter-bibbing charladies and cockney pub-dwellers were for several decades familiar to Punch and Tatler readers. The drawings had a good humor of their own, though the gags that went with them were too topical or parochial for export...