Word: pyle
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wyeth was trained by Howard Pyle and influenced by Michelangelo. His rich colors, massive compositions and skill at texture and light have made the brooding and heroic moments he painted almost as memorable as the celebrated stories he chose to illustrate. Wyeth fanciers who can't get enough of the great man's work by dusting off their old books or peering over their children's shoulders should try this fine volume, which lovingly reproduces hundreds of Wyeth's pictures, briefly recounts his life, and concludes with a 127-page bibliography of books, periodicals, dust jackets...
...several pamphlets, SECH concluded that the Handbook was not only the cheapest available (4½? per copy compared with $1 for others) but that its medical content was the best. "It's a very complete, succinct and medically sound book," says SECH's director, Dr. Louis A. Pyle. The committee decided that controversy over the pamphlet's introduction could be avoided by disavowing, in a covering flyer, the "wornout S.D.S. rhetoric of the late 1960s." But before distributing the Handbook in March-seven months after approving it-SECH forgot to staple in the planned disclaimer...
...Saigon spectacle known as the 5 O'Clock Follies, had its final performance with an American cast. Army Major Jere Forbus, the last Follies star, sighed, "Well, we may not have been perfect, but we outlasted Fiddler on the Roof." The Associated Press Saigon bureau chief, Richard Pyle, was less benign but more accurate when he called the briefings "the longest-playing tragicomedy in Southeast Asia's theater of the absurd...
...Clyde Pyle, chairman of the CDA Housing Planning Council, said last night that even if approved, state funds would not take effect until late 1974, and urged Harvard to make the necessary funds available immediately...
...hereby put Harvard University on direct notice that it is clearly their responsibility for the slum conditions that exist in Cambridge. It is this University that has stated publicly its intentions for community oriented assistance toward low-income housing, I now say: put up or shut up," Pyle demanded in a recent CDA bulletin...