Word: pencils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usual method: trace an outline of the child's hand, draw in life-size warts with a red or blue pencil. The child is told to look for "a very faint tingling in [his] warts. . . . That is a sign that they will soon disappear." The child takes the chart home, daily compares the real warts with those on the sketch, notes their shrinkage. Treatment is not confined to the hands. For the nine-year-old daughter of a skeptical dermatologist, Dr. Vollmer was able to charm away a faceful of warts in six weeks...
French critics have compared her pre-Vittel paintings to those of Douanier Rousseau, her later pencil portraits to Fouquet's. In an age of sweeping confusion in art her pictures were at least disarmingly limited and nicely drawn...
...electoral setup would emphasize parties rather than candidates-another help to the Communists, the best disciplined party. (Commenting on the voting system, famed French mathematician and Rightist Assemblyman Jacques Bardoux said: "I read these texts once without understanding them. I read them a second, then a third time, pencil in hand. It was in vain . . . so I finally consigned to the Devil this opus born of mating of Socialist and Communist thought...
...only other Austrian of Mahler's musical stature was Richard Strauss. The Mahlers and Strausses shared a box at the opening of Strauss's opera, Feuersnot. Writes Alma Mahler: "Strauss thought of nothing but money ... the whole time he had a pencil in his hand. . . . [He] calculated his profits to the last penny." Strauss's formidable wife, Pauline, said to Mahler: "My God, for a million-well no, that's not enough-five million! And then Richard can stop manufacturing music...
...mouf kind of comic contempt for Negroes. All the Cats Join In is a jukebox setting of Benny Goodman's record, in which orgiastic hepcats and bobby-soxers, mad on chocolate malteds, tear all over the place, paced and sustained by the sketching of a deft, rapid pencil. It will satisfy the young and the benign, sicken those who suspect "healthy" tributes to button-eyed innocence...