Word: penmanship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peasant girl named Thérèse Pantevin, informs Costals that because of his novels she envisions him as her spiritual savior; when he advises her to see her priest, she goes mad. Another, Andrée Hacquebaut, sets a new record in passionate penmanship for the mails (some 200 letters over a period of two years), first offering Costals her provincial, literate, blue-stocking soul and finally her awkward 30-year-old body...
...delightful discoveries of recent years in the world of caricature has been the deadly penmanship of David Levine, 42, whose witty, polemical line drawings have appeared in Esquire, New York magazine, the New York Review of Books, TIME and Newsweek. The irony is that Levine's fame rests on a hobby, "something I've always done for friends,"* rather than on his paintings and watercolors, which he has done professionally since 1951. Last week, to right the balance, Levine exhibited 48 of his watercolors along with 40 drawings in Manhattan's Forum Gallery, and thus reminded...
...need of cutting they were easy to edit: God had thoughtfully turned out copies of them in every known language and had recorded them by every conceivable means, including invisible ink and skywriting. "I have relied almost entirely upon the typewritten version," Towne reports, "because I find Gods penmanship indecipherable...
...Dodgson. The Mad Hatter, Cheshire Cat, Dormouse and Ugly Duchess may be absent in the original version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, but this charming facsimile of the preliminary manuscript is laced with Dodgson's (nom de plume: Lewis Carroll) own penmanship and fanciful, spidery sketches of White Rabbit, Mock Turtle and Alice as he first conceived them...
...Dodgson. The Mad Hatter, Cheshire Cat, Dormouse and Ugly Duchess may be absent in the original version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, but this charming facsimile of the preliminary manuscript is laced with Dodgson's (nom de plume: Lewis Carroll) own penmanship and fanciful, spidery sketches of White Rabbit, Mock Turtle and Alice as he first conceived them...