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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Included in this well-chosen show of the best of Beardsley's interesting, but unsatisfying, graphics are two paintings, by Burne-Jones and Albert Moore, demonstrating the Pre-Raphaelites' influence on him. When one realizes that these works were done by the leaders of late Victorian art, he can fully appreciate the scope and importance of Beardsley's technical accomplishment. Another artistic force in Beardsley's career, the Japanese eighteenth century print-maker, Utamaro, is likewise represented with two works. However, these subtle, lyrical works tend to point up Beardsley's limited emotional attachment. The conviction which dignifies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Aubrey Beardsley | 5/1/1959 | See Source »

Jack Heffernan's Brown Cubs, if as good as past Bruin freshman teams, may cool off the high-flying Crimson nine. The Yardlings have played up to every pre-season expectation, and Samborski hopes the team's recent well-balanced play will continue...

Author: By Robert E. Smith, | Title: Hard-Hitting Freshman Nine Faces UNH, Brown in Week-end Contests | 5/1/1959 | See Source »

Most of the experienced players have also surpassed pre-season expectations. Co-captain Pete Sieglaff, a second-string midfielder at Deerfield, has developed into one of the finest players Yardling teams have had in many seasons. Grady Watts, the other co-captain, is the team's leading scorer with more than 20 goals in the five games he has played...

Author: By Paul S. Cowan, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 4/28/1959 | See Source »

Most Wodehouse characters live in England, but they have a curiously American shine to their ways. His heroines would seem the image of Harry Leon Wilson flappers of pre-World War I America-the America first known to Wodehouse-were it not for the fact that they are simultaneously as British as Poet John Betjeman's strong-armed Dianas; they display the "outer crust ... of Miss Marilyn Monroe," and yet still manage to draw from their swains such modish endearments of the British '20s as a "tenderly" spoken "old blighter." Wodehouse heroes are often golfers, but they play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Blighter | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

...cling to their touchstones, comparing every modern composition to the classical paragon in its form, usually harshly, often unfairly applying criteria that are not altogether suitable. The composer faces the choices of breaking definitely with the musical past; or creating a new mainstream of music by appealing to the pre-Palestrina composers; or deliberately continuing in the traditions of the great classical and romantic composers, risking invidious comparisons...

Author: By Paul A. Buttenwieser, | Title: Thompson Requiem | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

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