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...Pablo Picasso's pen & ink Nude Woman with Raised Arms was sketched in 1909, when the artist had already proved himself a master of academic drawing, and got bored with it. African carvings gave him a new departure: they substituted corners for classical curves and punch for prettiness. Picasso applied their principles to his Montmartre models, but he kept a respect for the realities of the human figure which the Africans never had. His Bergamo sketch was a tense, ebony-hard construction, half model and half idol. With such rough-cut works, Picasso had served notice that he preferred...
...have no more color than a subtly graded grey wash and one or two small areas of blood red. His designs for the Lionel Barrymore "Macbeth" of 1921 and the John Barrymore "Hamlet" of 1920 are masterpieces of expression, and at the same time, of dramatic force. Jones' costume sketch for John Barrymore as Gloucester is a revelation of character in every line, every color and texture contrast...
Installation of the University's World War II Memorial plaque (sketch above) will be delayed two or three months, architect Henry R. Shapley '10 disclosed yesterday, because new names have been added to the original list. The plaque was expected to be ready for dedication in the Memorial Chapel for the opening of College, but work on the actual carving of the names of Harvard's dead has not yet begun...
...blazing skill and lazy improvisations, his rich humor and corny folksiness, his deep sense of tragedy and tasteless gothic excesses are all brought together. About half a dozen stories are as good bits of fiction as have ever been written in the U.S.: Barn Burning, a poignant sketch of a boy's anguished love for his arsonist-father; A Rose for Emily, that hair-raising classic of a lady's decline to necrophilia; Wash, a magnificent portrait of a poor white who, after years of loyalty, rebels against his landlord; Dry September, a lynching story...
...Bellow's recording (in Partisan Review) of a quack doctor's monologue in Chicago's "Bughouse Square"; Paul Bowles's eerie portrait (Mademoiselle) of a missionary's effort to hold the attention of primitive Indians by playing them jazz records; Peggy Bennett's sketch (Harper's Bazaar) of the thoughtless, almost affectionate cruelty young boys can show to each other; and Edward Newhouse's story (The New Yorker) of a father who delights in ceremonial tributes to his dead soldier...