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...upbringing, burdened with a great personal tragedy (his wife early became insane), he was not a successful painter, had a hard time learning how to write and lecture for a living. When he hoped for the directorship of the National Gallery he was passed over; he was made Slade Professor of Art at Cambridge only in the last year of his life. But Roger Fry made more Britons look at pictures and like them than any other man of his time. The term Post-Impressionism, for the art of Cézanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, et al., was his invention...
...incense-burning and precious bric-a-brac, decadent paintings, rhapsodies in verse to Actress Lily Langtry, his declaration that "I want to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world." What was less frequently recalled was that he was the pet of Slade Professor John Ruskin and of the great Walter Pater, who was once so overcome by his protege's beautiful talk about the "new Hellenism" that he went on his knees, kissed Oscar's hand. No one enjoyed more than Ruskin and Pater the story of how Oscar had thrown...
Gandhi sat on a sheet-covered mat, his hands folded under a white cotton blanket. A shorthand expert was on one side; on the other were two women disciples, one of them Madeleine Slade, daughter of a British admiral. A "wide gulf" separated Britain and India, began the Mahatma. There was no "prospect whatsoever of a peaceful, honorable settlement" until Britain let the Indians determine their own status. And then: "When this is done, questions regarding defense of minorities, princes and European interests automatically will be dissolved. ... If Britain cannot recognize India's legitimate claims, what will...
Meraud, named doubtless by exotic derivation from émeraude (emerald), took after her mother in an eccentric love of painting. She learned to draw accurately at the strict Slade School. She carried a little suitcase instead of a handbag "because," she told the supercilious young Marquess of Donegall, "the damned thing holds more, you fool." One day she ran off to France with Señor Alvaro Guevara, a charming Chilean painter whose portrait of Poetess Edith Sitwell hangs in the Tate Gallery. Tentative little paintings by Meraud Guevara began to. appear in the Paris Salon des Independants. That...
...were named by petition for the position of Class Post: Robert W. Anderson, and Richard M. Noyes, Chaloner B. Slade was nominated for Class Chorister, and William H. Sleeper was slated for Class Odist...