Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first sketch in the new section is of Groucho Marx, whose appearance on this week's cover is an introduction to the department. Groucho appeared on our cover once before, along with three of his four brothers, in 1932.This week's Personality story is the work of Joel Sayre, who has written for TIME, The New Yorker and Hollywood...
Somewhat surprisingly, the stories about World War II flying make dull reading, perhaps because aerial combat had become so formalized that one account seems pretty much like another. But Editor Jensen has dug up two first-rate items for his closing sections. Someone Like You is a poignant sketch of battle fear by Roald Dahl, a onetime R.A.F. pilot. And in The Three Secrets of Flight, Wolfgang Langewiesche, a onetime test-pilot, offers a superbly lucid discussion of the psychological adjustments men must make to survive...
...Light in August" being especially noteworthy. An extended review of "Requiem for a Nun" by Albert Guerard seems to me the best that has appeared. Along other things, Guerard's passing reference to "Temple Drake's tragedy (which is that she is Temple Drake)" is a classic thumbnail sketch of the bitch-heroine...
...that members of the House Committees occupy the rooms and perform the duties of Resident Tutors, in turn freeing them for service at the steam-tables and, if that prove inefficient, as porters. We shall be glad to elaborate the details of this plan, contenting ourselves here with a sketch of large principles. John H. Finley, Master of Eliot House Howard E. Hugo, Senior Tutor
Among the best is Cranach's sketch of Philip, Duke of Pomerania, a picture once attributed (along with several other Cranachs) to Albrecht Dürer, one of history's greatest draftsmen. Cranach dramatized details of character that a candid camera might have caught: the fierce brow, the thoughtful squint, the sad, confident mouth...