Word: penned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite his crudities. Faye has eight TV sponsors, because he can assure them of a good-sized audience. His mail is chiefly the poison-pen type: "Die! Die! Die!" urged one letter writer last week. Said another: "You are a splendid example of the fact that in order to have free speech we must tolerate its abuse by idiots." In a recent charity appearance before 62,500 people at Soldier Field, Faye fans pelted him with coins, ice cream, paper cups and jeers. Grabbing a microphone, he bellowed: "I want you to know that whatever you think...
...name meaning "unknown," which his journalist father first used as a pen name and then took...
...Stuff." In his spare time he hooks rugs ("It's therapeutic"), works on portraits of his 22 grandchildren, has designed banners for the university's schools and colleges. He has an enthusiasm for heraldry and quill pen writing, once spent hours designing a silver box for a waitress who was retiring from one of the residential colleges. Last week, as news of his own retirement spread, he was absorbed in another sort of activity-reading the scores of letters from former students whom he had "set on fire." "Mostly sob stuff!" said Theodore Sizer gruffly...
When Lorca is successful, though, he achieves a surpassing clarity of expression through a concentrated effort to open all his senses wide and yet his impressions bypass his mind and go right to his pen; it is a clarity that a weaker spirit might have intellectualized into obscurity. His best moments come when he makes true what the soon-to-depart Mr. Honig has said of him--"(Lorca) is above all a realistic sensualist who must have the secret of light bare...
...watercolors and drawings Greenman has command of a definite style. It seemed to me however that she strives too much for a decorative effect. There is something about her crowd figures reminiscent of Reginald Marsh, without his strength or skill. Anne Lord's pen and ink drawings of horses would be better done on white paper. Though the draughtsmanship is wiry and supple. Uninteresting and imprecise line, undermines the efforts of Judy Kuznets to create an effect with watercolor wash over ink. I found her Accordion Player and Mother and Child shapeless to my imagination. The idea, however...