Word: pens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sergei Radamsky, tunbellied Author Hendrik Willem van Loon. For a portraitist with such a good address, Painter Klinghoffer is medium-priced, will do a muscled, Michelangelesque drawing for $60, a Rembrandtesque oil for $650. An expert at accurate anatomy and spitting imagery, Artist Klinghoffer has been working with charcoal, pen and pencil ever since she can remember. Says she, with a London-influenced Austrian accent: "I drew like that before I ever sore any old masters...
Other Departments, especially larger ones with more men writing theses, should not find it hard to make up such groups and try this system. From the time a student gets his first inkling of his subject, to the moment when he puts pen to paper for the first draft, this wider contact with like-minded men can do a lot to build a stronger foundation for the thesis, the work that represents the culmination of the tutorial system...
...music not too warmly. Mr. van Loon is probably the off-dashing-est of Bach's many biographers (best: Julius August Philipp Spitta, 19th Century German scholar; Dr. Albert Schweitzer, organist and missionary in Africa), illustrates the mighty J. S.'s life with his usual hen-tracky pen drawings...
...Fern Gravel" was the pen name of a sub-teen authoress whose soul simultaneously exfoliated in and was griped by her Iowa home town, early in the 1900s. Her verses, now brought to light (she had entrusted them to the safekeeping of an adult confidant), are as good examples of dead-pan lyricism as have ever been printed...
...more British, even, than average-British. This seven-month child of a British peer and an American heiress went back to Elizabethan times to find his spiritual forebears; he grew to maturity with a stomach for strong food and drink, with a lust for adventure, with a tongue and pen that shaped the English language into the virile patterns of a Donne, a Marlowe or a Shakespeare. His father he worshiped, but never got close to; his mother he respectfully admired...