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...Splendid as Peale is, and as Copley was before him, there is another tradition in American art that has been too little appreciated. That is the tradition of the simple journeymen artists who make their living by painting likenesses for pleasantly prosperous people in areas outside our few cities. Like peddlers, they come to the door and inquire whether the master or mistress wants a portrait painted. Their range is the range of their feet (or perhaps their horse), and their reputation passes by word of mouth in the town squares or local taverns. Their knowledge of Europe is gathered...
...declined before he had, a circumstance that occurred mainly as a result of his later novels, featuring what one critic described as "this very complex style . . . really quite tough going, with very long sentences," exemplified in books such as The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl, and others; and how splendid that the honor was accorded him in a city (London) which had first repelled him as a raw, Hogarthian place, and more precisely, in a cathedral (Westminster Abbey) from which he had once fled because the crowds emitted an odor that "was not that of incense," and that he eventually came...
...usually sedate French National Assembly has lately become a scene of turmoil and dissension. Cabals of Deputies huddle up and down the splendid baronial halls. Ministers discuss the latest parliamentary tricks. The visitors' gallery is packed. Reason for all the drama: President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's proposed capital gains...
That is either here nor there, as Lardner's hard-spelling pitcher Jack Keefe wrote to his friend Al in Call for Mr. Keefe! Some dusting off is necessary, not for the benefit of the splendid Lardner, but for those hardship cases who have yet to become his readers. The two volumes at hand do the job agreeably...
Barabara G. Rosenkrantz '44, master of Currier House, said yesterday Orlovsky is "a splendid candidate for senior tutor...