Word: sketch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tweed jacket and tie when he is painting. Never using a palette, he squeezes the colors on to plain white kitchen dishes and uses them just as they come out of the tube, except for the addition of a little turpentine. Each picture starts with a fairly detailed charcoal sketch; he gradually simplifies it as he paints. This process of simplification, he says, is the very symbol of his life: "A constant struggle for complete expression with a minimum of elements...
Little fault can be found with the rest of the magazine on the grounds of maturity or competence, but there is nothing original, compelling, or satisfying. James McGovern's "Forty Cents" is an unambitious sketch whose type can be found almost any week in the New Yorker, and Bradley Phillips' "The Glass Wall" can hardly claim to be more than a somewhat symbolic atmosphere piece. Sensitivity and good writing do not save these stories from a slightness in which the Advocate makes a mistake to indulge to such an extent...
Another of the stories is a neat though conventional sketch of a naval captain's obstinate and ultimately successful struggle to bring a torpedoed vessel back to port. The third is a first-rate portrait of a middle-aged man, veteran of World War I, who volunteers for "heavy rescue" work in London. Finding in his new job a pride he had lost during "the arid, desolate years between the wars," he achieves anonymous heroic stature by surrendering his life in a futile attempt to save a trapped man. This is certainly one of the best war stories written...
...coaster. In cutaway coat with stiff collar and ascot tie, Whitehead paced the lecture platform with hands in pockets. Vestigial tufts of white hair fringing a shiny bald pate made him look, said one pupil, "like an angel whose halo had slipped." Now & then Whitehead arrested his pacing to sketch a deceptively simple blackboard diagram of what he called a "prehension" or to explain patiently what he meant by such Whiteheaded concepts as the "form of flux...
Does U.S. industry know a way to curb inflation? Last week, General Electric's Charles E. Wilson, who often speaks for a large segment of American industry, laid down a rudimentary sketch of such a plan...