Word: sketched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knew the oldest and the latest music, pre-Bach and post-Stravinsky, and knew it cold.... I am convinced that it is Mlle. Boulanger's perceptivity as a musician that is at the core of her teaching. She is able to grasp the still uncertain contour of an incomplete sketch, examine it, and fore-tell the probable and possible ways in which it may be developed. She is expert in picking flaws in any work in progress, and knowing why they are flaws...
...what he wanted, Egbert turned to famed Industrial Designer Raymond Loewy, who was responsible for the handsome 1947 Studebaker that had an important influence on the style of postwar U.S. autos. Flying to California early in 1961 to meet Loewy, Egbert roughed out a small sketch. "I knew at once," says Loewy, "that we were on the same wave length...
...came across Kline exhibiting on a Greenwich Village sidewalk 23 years ago. The next work is a snowy landscape in which a black fence runs jaggedly through the scene, much as Kline's thick black abstract strokes do today. The painting called Nijinsky is followed by an illuminating sketch of a rocking chair done in 1951. Here, the chair's structure is so loose that its parts seem about to fly off to form a new and wholly unpredictable pattern. The jump from there to Probst I is not a leap...
...British Parliament, the U.S. Congress got stirred up, and a bill to ban boxing was introduced in the state legislature of New York. The press, in the U.S. and Europe, sounded off with extravagant anger. "The most murderous world title fight in history," said the London Daily Sketch. "Is this the Saturday night pastime of a civilized people?" asked the New York Times in an editorial. "An unprecedented boxing scandal," agreed the Vienna Kurier. The New York Post called boxing "organized primitivism," and demanded that it be outlawed. "Professional boxing," reported the Vatican radio, "is a morally objectionable sport...
...adapt itself to it. It was not simply that Marxism produced no literary criticism worth printing, though that was true enough; but even the social criticism of the American Left during the '30's came from men like Parrington, Beard, and Veblen, rather than from Marx. And Aaron's sketch of a figure like Edmund Wilson shows how the its ideology blinded the Party to the efforts o the few liberal thinkers consciously seeking to adapt Marx to America...