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...Hanlon's subjects range from a dipping, dabbing Ouzel to a mournful Solemn Heron and a whole series of popeyed, studious-looking little owls. His materials are chunks of volcanic rock found in California's hills. He chisels a bosomy pouter pigeon from pitted grey pumice, uses polished quartzite for the silken feathers of a nesting woodcock, letting the shape of the stone suggest his forms. He chisels a fierce eagle, coldly eying the world, with a few simple curves; in his owls, a rough triangle of stone becomes a beak, a sharp shelf of rock becomes...
Shoes & Glass. Studious Joe Sugar, busy at his homework chores in the quiet of the library basement, did not show up. But the crowd grew, moved on to Blair Arch, a traditional rallying point, and spilled into the streets of the town. More than 1,000 strong, it yelled its way down Nassau Street, exploded a few more firecrackers, sent a task force to storm the Garden Theatre and broke up the show. By the time the mob reached Hulit's shoe-store, it had been joined by Tad D. Hammond, who is as prominent...
...recent exam period with grades well into the alphabet may find consolation for their grief in the brevity of the fall term reading period. Upon returning from the Christmas recess they found themselves saddled with heavy reading assignments, and nine days later, when exams began, even the most studious saw that they had given many of their courses a cursory treatment. But the short January reading period is not to be a scourge unique to students presently enrolled in the college. In the Registrar's recent bit of long range scheduling, the Ten Year Calendar, we see that condensed fall...
...shabby old woman, her hair tucked beneath a scarf in the strict Orthodox manner, circulated sadly among the studious rabbis who live close by the Arab sector of Jerusalem. To each she told the same tear-stained story-two relatives of hers, a man & wife, were shortly to be put to death by the Americans...
...liked our quarter," begins Valerio, the studious boy who tells the story. It was, he recalls, a place where everyone scrounged for an extra lira, where the houses rotted with age and children played on the stoops of brothels; yet Valerio and his pals, fired with adolescent hope and vanity, felt that somehow they would find life brighter than their beaten-down parents had managed...