Word: ravenal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...less than seven examples in pottery and one painting ascribed to Kenzan; all are remarkably like the master's work, some of them are almost certainly by him. Koyetsu, less known abroad than his pupil Korin, is represented if only in delightful reproduction by a huge black pottery raven leaning forward to caw and by a single painting, more important, perhaps, than anything else in the three rooms. This is a tiny square of paper on which, in blue and gold, is a wave overlaid in spidery characters with that famous poem of the seventh century...
...MIRACLE BOY?Louis Golding ?Knopf ($2.50). Under the jacket, on which a jaundiced little shaver is pictured wading through a swamp of flowers, lies the story of a Tyrolean peasant, who, instead of a halo, carried a raven on his shoulder. Hugo Harpf, imagined as a very recent saint, toiled in his village, loved a peasant's daughter, went to Munich to learn how to paint and came home to work miracles. For this he was first killed and then worshipped. In its intention the story is not so much a satire as a critical footnote on the life...
...shot away by an Indian arrow. So marvelously could he then sing that universal applause shook the marshlands. The scrub oaks roared, the cattails clicked, The bumblebees lay down and kicked. A council of crows sat to hear the amazing music and departed mystified, all but a nunlike raven, who found the beakless Caruso and adored...
This evening at 8 o'clock in Emerson J. the fourth of the William Balden Noble series of lectures on "The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit in the Light of Psychology and Mysticism" will be given by the Reverend Dr. Charles E. Raven, Canon of Liverpool Cathedral...
...Reverend Mr. Charles Earle Raven, D.D., Canon of Liverpool Cathedral, Liverpool, and former Dean of Emmanuel College; Cambridge, England, will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel at 8.45 o'clock this morning...