Word: penned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bomb exploded at 8:33 a.m. British time. By 11:44 a.m., the first air wave reached England, having taken 3 hr. 11 min. to travel from Novaya Zemlya at the speed of sound-about 700 m.p.h. At 4:40 p.m. on the next day, the barograph pen jiggled again, recording the air waves that had taken the long path and circled the earth in the opposite direction and approached England from the southwest. At ten minutes past midnight on Nov. 1, the first wave swept over England again, making almost as strong a record as on its first trip...
There are exceptions. The Fox, illustrated by Peter Spier (Doubleday; $2.95), has delicate, colored pen drawings, and the text, an old song, is good enough to sing. Mary Britton Miller's Listen-the Birds, illustrated by Evaline Ness (Pantheon; $3), achieves unpatronizing verse. The poet knows enough about chickadees to know they actually say chicka-dee-dee-dee, but the child who hopes to see live birds like the ones illustrated will be sadly deceived. James and the Giant Peach, by Roald Dahl (Knopf; $3.95), has illustrations in good old-fashioned pen and ink, though the subject matter...
Write Me a Murder, by Frederick (Dial "M" for Murder) Knott, gives its killer a pen with which to sign his own death warrant, and after some fancy scalp tingling, he does...
ORESTES OR THE ART OF SMILING, by Domenico Gnoli (71 pp.; Simon & Schuster; $6.95). Domenico Gnoli is an artist whose pen drawings for his charming fable (about a prince who did not know how to smile) remind one a little of Cruikshank's, and a lot of Domenico Gnoli's. The book is for children and wise adults...
...others in this show approach Miss Rochlin's spontaneity. Deborah Ellis' pen sketch of a paunchy man (first prize in the graphics division) is pleasant and even humorous but occasionally rather unsure of anatomical detail. Among other drawings worth noting is a nude, "I' Arlesienne," by Adrianne Aldrich '62. Miss Aldrich, who knows her Toulouse-Lautrec almost overly well, does a fine job of capturing the feline quality of her subject...