Word: penned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...middle of the second reading of the amendment, Bob Cole wandered in and asked what part of the statement was "borrowed from the pen of Grenville Clark." It turned out only one sentence had been--quotation marks were left out because the "synonymous" name "Academic Freedom" had been substituted for "Harvard...
...disturbing to open a bottle labeled "champagne" and find it full of beer instead. And after becoming used to such works as "The Woman of Rome," and "Two Adolescents" from the pen of Alberto Moravia, it is disturbing to read his "The Conformist...
...Operation. Nutty as a fruit cake to all but his ardent fans is Virgil Franklin Partch II (pen name: VIP). Even when seen, a Partch cartoon can hardly be believed. "Guess Who," reads the caption under a domestic scene in which the not-so-little woman has sneaked up on her man from behind and blindfolded him with her bosom. Now 35, Partch has already drawn a man with as many as 19 fingers; he stamps out ugly, proboscidian heads as though he had gone berserk with a giant cookie-cutter. His special bugaboo: meeting his public. "They expect...
...water. The result is a fish which looks alive. Chermayeff's other fish in a large, blue water-color are quite dead and only make a pattern which would look pleasant on a bed-spread. "Breakfast at Sardi's" evokes humor and excitement. Except for two good pen-and-brush nudes, his other contributions. Chermayeff's sense of line and balance, nevertheless, is acute and at times rather pleasing...
These three, Barrie Cooke '53, Ivan Chermayeff '54, and George E. Woodman '54, use entirely different approaches. Whereas Cooke paints on canvas with many brilliant colored oils, Chermayeff limits himself to black ink and blocks of color on glossy cardboard. Woodman is varied in his style, using pen, brush, oils, and almost anything at hand...