Word: scratchings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...creme de menthe and appeared to have been sloshed on with a spoon. It did, however, look like something that people would buy in a Christmas card. Conway's Mother and Child lacked even that advantage; it was an all-but-indecipherable tangle of syrupy colors and tricky, scratch-and-patch textures without visible sentiment of any kind. Conway, who golfs about as well (in the high 70s) as he paints, had clearly taken great pains to scramble his prizewinner. Painting, he says, is like golfing: "Hitting the ball for miles and miles to try to get it into...
...support bill ... I know you people don't want federal control of education and your Congressman will fight that . . ." He said nothing about his wartime exploits as a paratroop officer, when he led a patrol behind the German-line near Arnhem, returning with 32 prisoners and without a scratch. Mostly he told the people about the issues of the 81st Congress, and how to apply for a Farmers Home Administration loan, wound up offering to send a weekly news digest from Washington...
...dance committee will have its problems. The all-college dance must start from scratch; Dartmouth's carnival and Yale's Derby Day at least have a large backlog of tradition behind them. But the men of the Key may be able to turn out a gay weekend...
These feuds and intrigues enable Graves to pepper his Islands with a host of hearty swashbucklers and infamous trollops, both professional and amateur. But sometimes they become so involved that even Graves is obliged to pause and scratch his head. Not for long. When this happens, he merely makes his narrator say: "Here my cart begins to stick ... so clogged . . . that I shall have a troublesome task to drive the wheels ... by heaving and hauling at the spokes." At this, of course, the friendly reader unconsciously puts his own shoulder to Author Graves's mired wheel-and before...
...appreciate the help that TIME gives its artists. TIME gives you sufficient photographs of the cover subject, a physical description of him, research into his life and character, and even an idea of how to do the cover. On the Old Testament assignment I had to start from scratch. I had to interpret the figures myself from the clues given in the stories...