Word: splendids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plenty of anguished howls from militant lowbrows about Shahn's splendid cover . . . For offbeat TIME covers, however, my money still goes on the job you did during the war on a Japanese admiral, I forget his name, but the artist was Boris Artzybasheff ... It was one of Artzybasheff's best...
Hungry Seagulls. Hirshhorn's random net inevitably scoops up many second-rate paintings, but it also snares some splendid ones. Among his finest recent purchases is Philip Evergood's American Shrimp Girl (opposite). One of the most versatile draftsmen alive, Evergood took obvious delight in depicting the hungry seagulls that circle the girl's head, and contrasting their eager grace with the girl's heavy-limbed, foursquare pose...
Captain Trimmer is just one of the odd fish that Evelyn Waugh takes whenever he lets down his nets. This novel is chiefly about officers who have always been gentlemen, particularly that "Christian gentleman,'' Guy Crouchback. It is every bit as good as Men at Arms, whose splendid characterizations and fine writing led many in 1952 to predict that its author had begun the best English fictional account of World War II. Waugh writes of the life and death of ruling-class commandomen with the authority of one who took part in raids on Bardia in Libya...
Samuel A. Boar, professor of Government and lecturer in Social Sciences 2, said, "It will be splendid to have Murdock as chairman. I am delighted and I am sure that the rest of the faculty is equally pleased...
...McLaughlin himself recently wrote a special letter commending the "splendid crusade for our youngsters.' "All the volunteers," he wrote, "have done well in situations new to them, have tried to understand the problems and frustrations in a state institution, and have shown patient friendliness at all times . . . children and staff alike look forward to a continued and rewarding relationship...