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...sketch for TIME by the Italian artist Pietro Annigoni...
When Charlotte was nine, her mother committed suicide; Charlotte's picture shows her just before she leaped from a window. Her father was taken to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp; her picture of him working under a guard's whip is a frenzied sketch, as if she could not bear to confront her easel. She fled from Germany; the scene of her last night at home is a lonely vigil over suitcases...
...recalling, and recording, the turbulent world of the early New Deal, and in many cases, their early manhood. Miss McCarthy had a more difficult task writing to a younger generation. She could not depend on memory to make a rough narrative seem smooth; she could not draw a quick sketch of a Spanish Civil War meeting and expect a college student to be content with the memories her passage invoked...
...successful, however, the organizations will have to be allowed the nearly complete freedom they enjoy during the winter. The Dean's office might require that they sketch their programs in advance, but the School should in no way try to restrict their operations. During the past three years Harvard has refused to permit only one program, and that was because it would have led to religious discrimination. Only one speaker, Pete Seeger, has been barred in recent years, and that ill-considered action was reversed after heavy protest. Last spring the University even permitted one of its rooms...
...Turkish massacre, into the fragile face of his friend Chopin, or even into his own mirror-he saw things that addressed themselves "to the most intimate part of the soul." He was an expert draftsman who told his students, "If you are not clever enough to do a sketch of a man throwing himself out of a window during the time it takes him to fall from the fourth floor to the ground, you will never be able to do the big stuff." Yet he was above all the master of color who raised it, as the late Walter Pach...