Word: stylist
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Michigan-born Virgil Exner sketched autos in school when he should have been studying Latin, went on to Notre Dame to study art and design. After stints as chief stylist for G.M.'s Pontiac division, and chief styling engineer for Studebaker (at the age of 29), he joined Chrysler at a time when President K. T. Keller, who once snorted at postwar advances as "the Jell-O school of design," was holding fast to Chrysler's ultraconservative styling. Under new President Lester Lum Colbert, Exner set about modernizing Chrysler's line, put the company back...
...Lamb is to see him whole. Some see only the mischievous little drunkard who "taught one little girl to say the Lord's Prayer backwards," tweaked William Wordsworth's nose and addressed him as, "You rascally old Lake poet!" Some see him as an overelaborate, rather cute stylist; others brush aside what they feel are merely trappings and hail Lamb as one of the kindest, most generous men that ever lived. Editor Matthews manages to include all these Lambs in his selection and to write what is probably the truest, briefest epitaph: "His friends loved him: his friends...
...myth-and-mystic British poet (The Listeners), novelist (Memoirs of a Midget) and short-story writer (Seaton's Aunt), whose intensely personal vision earned him membership in the Order of Merit, an honor limited to 24 living persons; of a coronary thrombosis; in Twickenham, England. A delicate, meticulous stylist, shy, ruddy-faced De la Mare was best loved for his children's tales and verses-some as chilling and profound as a child's daydream, others as sensitive and whimsical as the man himself. (Said Poet W.H. Auden: "A child brought up on such verses may break...
Jean Anouilh's Thieves' Carnival is clearly the work of a literary stylist. It has a delicate, charming style which is something like a waltz of distinctly impressionistic orchestration. Fittingly, the plot sometimes takes a rest and the characters actually break into a dance...
...precise and polished performance of World Champion Jenkins gave the U.S. its first gold medal. No sooner had the strains of The Star-Spangled Banner faded away than the Colorado stylist was all but forgotten. Accompanied only by his proud mother and his brother David (who finished third, behind California's Robertson), he hiked back through bitter cold to his hotel. No one had thought to send a car. Now everyone was worried about honey-haired Tenley Albright, the hard-luck kid from Newton, Mass. Only two weeks before, she had gashed her right ankle in a practice accident...