Word: sketching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...style of which Wolfe is popularly supposed to have been incapable. Chickamauga, which Wolfe slicked up unnaturally in the vain hope of selling it to the Satevepost, is a respectable experiment in the U.S. vernacular, as un-Wolfeishly plain as weathered bone. Also included: a steely-clean character sketch of a rich old New Yorker waking up; an almost religious essay on loneliness; a hard spanking of a literary critic who might be William Lyon Phelps or Henry Seidel Canby; a Swiftian attack on Irishmen; a few poignant pages on Cousin Arnold in which is resurrected the snorting ghost...
Appearing in the Music Building yesterday to sketch the cultural background of the Middle Ages for Music 1 students, Roger B. Merriman, Gurney Professor of History and Master of Eliot House, co-starred with an intruder in the form of a large Irish Setter...
Around a nest of bridge tables in University of Michigan's plushy Rackham Building, 20 of the ablest educators of Europe and America gathered last week to sketch a brave new post-war world-a world in which education would play a role denied it at Versailles. Like certain famous beer-hall conferences conducted some 20 years ago, this conference had a leader-a tubby, broad-shouldered ex-German named Reinhold Schairer-and a conspiratorial air, but its ideology was far different. In the minds of the conferees the outlines of a new world order took definite shape...
...line with their policy to make the book's 264 pages less serious and more peppy, each page is bi-colored, and the "Forward" and "Content" sections are decorated by cartoons by Sam Ansell '44. Highlighting the feature section of the book is a humorous sketch of a Freshman's career...
...British Politics." And finally, "the impact of his personality was so shattering that I felt, when I left his service, that this had been the private secretaryship to end all private secretaryships." Net result: I Was Winston Churchill's Private Secretary is a short, thin, intimate sketch infused with adolescent adoration...