Word: willson
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...musical by Meredith Willson (The Music Man) that discovers the pre-embarkation intrigues and romances of Christopher Columbus as he inveigles Queen Isabel to sponsor his voyage to the new world. Stars Richard Cullum, Chita Rivera, and Jean Fenn. Los Angeles, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Sept...
...Overseers approved both appointments at their four and one-half hour meeting yesterday, along with the appointment of William Liller '48, Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy, as new Master of Adams House...
...Lowell House and EI Cerito, Cal., mathematics; Peter Ravn-Hansen '68 of Adams House and Hillsdale, N.J., social studies; Kenneth W. Wachter '68 of Quincy House and Westfield, N.J., history and literature; Charles A. Weber '68 of Dudley House and Bethesda, Md., Far Eastern languages; and Stephen J. willson '68 of Dunster House and Beverly Hills, Cal., mathematics...
Occasionally a craftsman of exceptional talent-a Matthew Pratt or Charles Willson Peale-would take up painting as a career. But producing folk art remained largely a part-time occupation of the village cabinetmaker, sign painter, stonecutter or shipwright-or was carried on by the womenfolk at home. The practitioners were nearly always self-taught, untrained in technique or even perspective, and tended to thrive far from urban cultural centers. But they made up for their deficiencies with sharp-eyed observation, an infectious joyousness in their labor, and a remarkable freshness of vision (see color...
Cheerful & Talented. Though their styles differed, the Peales shared a common delight in painting one another. Husbands painted wives, daughters did fathers, nephews did uncles, everyone did in-laws. Charles Willson Peale painted one picture of James studying a miniature done by James's daughter Anna of Rembrandt's daughter Rosalba (herself a landscapist). He did another of James at work, probably on the portrait of his first wife Rachel, in miniature. "There was a happy cheerfulness in their countenances," observed old John Adams, viewing an early portrait by C. W. Peale of his family...