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...first crucial tests when he reached Cambridge was learning to cross a street alone. Back home in Scarsdale everybody drove. "I didn't know how to use a cane," he recalled. "I used to wave it over my head, utter a few prayers, and run." He made one attempt to get a seeing eye dog, but gave it up when Helen (his dog) objected vocally to Professor Alfred's rendition of Beowulf in old English...
Reveries by Night. There has been one big problem in appreciating Ryder's work: he painted with an utter disregard for basic technique. He piled paint layer upon layer, to thicknesses of a quarter of an inch, often returning to work on a canvas while it was still wet. He found it almost impossible to think of a painting as finished, frequently took back ones he had sold and com pletely reworked them. He called the process "ripening" and likened himself to an inchworm reaching out tentatively into space from the end of a leaf. "I am trying...
Rodwin called claims by the Boston press that the Center would become computerized and concern itself more with the technological aspects of urban problems because of Wood's appointment "utter nonsense...
...Pueblo were heroes, their kind of "heroism" was the most elemental--mere physical survival of the Korean captivity. If that was cause for celebration, what it showed to the rest of America was net. The men had to endure only because of the utter futility of America's efforts at releasing them...
...family dubs Chitty Chitty Bang Bang because of the way it chug-chugs and a beautiful lady named Truly Scrumptious because of the way she mug-mugs. Cute romance is in the air, cute songs flood the sound track, and the children, pining for Truly (Sally Ann Howes), utter the unkindest cute of all: "If he kisses her, then they'll hafta get married...