Word: sectional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kidding whom? In your Jan. 26 Art section you quote a Detroit art dealer: ''The main bulk of buying is not Sheep Grazing in the Meadow any more, nor is the young woman of today buying art just to match the draperies." As a member of a cooperative formed by 75 local artists, I had a prospective "young woman" purchaser urge me to paint a picture that would complement the color of a lamp shade in her living room. She described the size it should be, showed me where it would hang, but was totally disinterested in subject...
...unknown at the Shop, the scene of many little economics, and he smiled modestly at the salesman who was watching his progress to the Valentines rack. Glancing guiltily past those daring, jokey ones, he hovered over the "Personal" section...
...walks through the antiseptic stacks, along the rows of first editions and rare presentation copies, the varied titles are continually dazzling. In one section are first editions of Frost, Thoreau, Longfellow, Melville. The library considers New England authors its special province...
...only other portion of the library accessible to the casual visitor is a series of rooms displaying samples from Houghton's unmatched theater collection. "Playbills, posters, prints, photographs, pamphlets, broadsides, sheet music, letters, documents, clippings"--everything pertaining to the theater in any form fills the theater section of the Houghton stacks. Old poster and playbills of Kean and Booth, the playbill for the Ford theater on the night of Lincoln's assassination, are some notable examples. One piece, P.T. Barnum's first advertisement, tells of his original sideshow: "Joice Heth . . . born on the island of Madagascar on the coast...
...operative club that figured so prominently in last year's controversy, seems destined to collapse. It again held an open Bicker, allowing anyone who was interested to sign up, and attracted only four sophomores; it is extremely doubtful that it can survive with so small a sophomore "section." Prospect's difficulty is that its philosophy of non-selectivity is incompatible6LODGE MEMBERS chat during dinner hour. While most sophomores ate hurriedly and thought of nothing but Bicker last week, men in Wilson seemed calm and relaxed. The Lodge has a color television set in the dining room, and a game room...