Word: squints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Exam period is far away, but for those who remember three hours of squint and strain in Fogg during exam periods past, the delay cannot be too long. The lighting, designed especially for courses using slides, features a brilliantly illuminated stage, and overhead spotlight fixtures, equipped with what seem to be sixty-watt bulbs. The paltry number of foot-candles falling from above usually get lost in the dirty greenish decor...
...good for those who must grind out three hours worth of knowledge because the light, inadequate to begin with, creates shadows that make it impossible to see what one is writing. Adding to the difficulty is the lit-up stage which forces the examgoer to squint every time he looks...
...best is Cranach's sketch of Philip, Duke of Pomerania, a picture once attributed (along with several other Cranachs) to Albrecht Dürer, one of history's greatest draftsmen. Cranach dramatized details of character that a candid camera might have caught: the fierce brow, the thoughtful squint, the sad, confident mouth...
...donkey (left side of picture), not famous for brains, with the sanctimonious halo above his head, his squint eyes looking down his nose, the self-satisfied smirk, really cinches it with that right fore hoof "kicking...
...Coyo owes this world few debts: his mulatto father is a lame hunchback, his Hindu-Chinese mother "a female monster with a squint." The family, which lives in the Martinique port of St. Pierre, is forever poor, and to buy the canoe he desperately wants, Ti-Coyo dives for coins whenever the liners pull in. But the competition is terrific; dozens of strapping Negro divers leave only small change for little fellows like Ti-Coyo. How, wonders the boy, can he liquidate his competition...