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...explanation of this startling development lay in the enthusiasm and artistic skill of a member of the class of 1921. Philip L. Cheney '21 occupied the room in 1918, and painted on the plaster of his bedroom wall--he roomed alone in Matthews 6--a 5 1/2 by 3 1/2 foot landscape...
Marini could be brutal as well as touch ing. His little Kneeling Girl had the crude, ruined air of a primitive idol dredged up from a marsh. It was academically con vincing in some parts, arbitrarily distorted in others. Where pieces of the plaster mold had stuck to the bronze, it was leprously splotched. The head was as round and almost as blank as a cannon ball, but its blankness was part of Marini's intention: a human "universality" that classic features might have lacked. The Kneeling Girl's fat, soft hams and absurdly shriveled arms gave...
What was it all about? Football, which drew crowds and made money. Two years ago the National Collegiate Athletic Association tried to poultice the swelling with a mustard plaster called the Sanity Code. The code permitted athletes free tuition and one free training-table meal a day in season, and stipulated that part-time jobs held by athletes must be real jobs. Some 300 coaches accepted the code with their left hands and then hurried off about their proper pre-season business...
...Boss know what his man was saying? Obviously he did, and presumably Sawyer had his blessing. That did not mean that Harry Truman would hesitate to plaster the "special interests" with fresh taunts if politics dictated. It did mean that like many successful politicians, Harry Truman was capable of contradictions within himself, and of trying to run in two directions at once. It also suggested that the Fair Deal was proposing a guarded and perhaps temporary truce. Business would remain wary. But in what often seemed a friendless world, a pat on the head was better than a savagely aimed...
...after irate citizens had banished from exhibition a plaster cast of the Discobolus, famed Roman copy of a Myron statue, because the discus thrower was nude, Novelist Samuel (The Way of All Flesh) Butler wrote a satirical ode to the city...