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...less known than he deserves, it is largely his own doing. He refused to have his paintings reproduced during his lifetime, exhibited rarely and reluctantly. Last week, four years after his death at 85, 63 of Yeats' drawings and watercolors were on display at London's Waddington Galleries. Almost every one of them has been sold. Said Eric Newton in the Man chester Guardian: "His uniqueness lay in his extraordinary gift for turning an Irish brogue and a Celtic pilt into pigment...
...time he painted The Horse Lover in 1930, his technique was loose, almost wild. The brush often surrendered to the palette knife; flat statement gave way to poetic suggestion; line and color broke and quivered with emotion. "Yeats," said Austrian Painter Oskar Kokoschka on hearing of the Waddington exhibition, "was an outsider who did not follow or belong to any school. All his work bears the mark of fantastic imagination and individuality.'' What was Yeats' best period? "As long as he was alive.'' said Kokoschka...
...Class will graduate with honors today. Sixty-eight will receive cum laudes; 41, magna cum laudes; and seven, summa cum laudes. Women receiving summas are Sandra Chrones, Oneonta, N.Y.; Joy Hambuechen, Huntington, L.I.; Margaret V. Means, Summit, N.J.; Cynthia M. Rich, Baltimore; Evelyn Janover, New York City; and Elizabeth Waddington, Bartlesville, Okla...
...elected to the Radcliffe chapter are Edith Baras of Roxbury; Joan Louise Foster, of Everett Hall and Hanover, N.H.; Abigail J. Lewis, of Holmes Hall and New Haven, Conn.; Cynthia M. Rich of Moors Hall and Baltimore; Ann Waddington of Briggs Hall and Bartlesville, Okla.; and May Werthan, of Eliot Hall and Nashville, Tenn...
Growing Up. A mystery that has fascinated philosophers for thousands of years is how a complete organism develops out of a single fertilized egg cell. Biologist C. H. Waddington of the University of Edinburgh reports that it is a mystery still. The biologists can bother fertilized ova in all sorts of ways, but they cannot explain how the apparently simple cell can, all by itself, construct something as complicated as a whale...