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...ultimate test of the cartoonist's skill at character definition-or character assassination-is the presidential portrait. The available evidence to date (see cuts) suggests that the man with the dish face and the donkey's ears has not yet been pinned to the sketch boards of the U.S. press...
They do about seven sketches in an evening, never saying a word, mixing ballet, pantomime and animated cartoonery. In any given sketch, two or three actors will be visible, and two or three phantoms will be on the stage with them, making brightly colored inanimate objects move about as if by magic...
...strength to these certain kindred favored races so that they may survive and inherit the earth to the extinction of the lesser, weaker races." Theodore Roosevelt declared: "The most vicious cowboy has more moral principle than the average Indian." Poet-Essayist Oliver Wendell Holmes described the Indians as a "sketch in red crayons of a rudimental manhood. The white man hunts him down like the wild beasts of the forest, and so the red-crayon sketch is rubbed out, and the canvas is ready for a picture of manhood a little more like God's own image...
When not talking about everything and anything, he is writing about it-in language that can only be described as a sesquipedalian fractured English all his own. A sample sentence, from Page One of a recent autobiographical sketch about his boyhood, begins...
Piety and Expedience. In this lively collection. Valentine, formerly president of the University of Rochester, offers a sampling of paternal advice, reproach and exhortation from the 14th century to the present day. At their most fascinating, the letters sketch whole chapters of social history in a few lines. "You ought to aim at being a good ecclesiastic," writes that arch-politician Lorenzo de' Medici in 1492 to the teen-age son he has just seen made a cardinal, "nor will it be difficult for you to favor your family"-thus suggesting the marriage of piety and expedience that...