Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hopeful. In the window appeared a tired, ascetic, unshaven old man in a worn black cassock. This was Padre Antonio. In a commanding voice, he announced that he would first bless the sick. Then he singled out some of the most pitiful in the sweating, excited yet strangely quiet crowd. "Stand up and walk," he said, pointing to a cripple. Others tried to catch his eye. "No, not you. Get away. You there, stand up and walk." Some of the apparently crippled stood up and walked before the silent crowd...
...illustrations show that art for children reached its peak in 19th Century England. Walt Disney himself would need a lot of film to match the action in Randolph Caldecott's Panjandrum Picture Book (published in 1885). And Kate Greenaway's grave little watercolors for Under the Window and Marigold Garden are still as modern-to children's eyes-as they were when Critic John Ruskin devoted a lecture at Oxford to "The Place of Kate Greenaway in Modern...
Born in Hungary, Sepeshy came to the U.S. in 1921, spent some ten years house painting, lumber stacking and window dressing, finally married a girl "as blonde and as genuine as a sand dune," and discovered to his surprise that he could make a living and even support a family (two children) by teaching art. Now he heads the Department of Painting at Michigan's progressive Cranbrook Academy. It was a teacher who gave Sepeshy his first incentive to become an artist. "If I hadn't wanted to 'show' that drawing teacher who had flunked...
Police lines quickly tightened around Annev buildings after the "incident" to curb further disturbances. An hour later the law was reported to have flushed another undergraduate hurling rocks at a Whitman Hall upper window...
...spine. . . . Getting it out involved considerable damage to adjacent and innocent property. ... It was as if a crew of firemen were trying to get a safe . . . out of the third story of a burning building. The stairs were on fire, so they had to take it through a window. . . . In their haste they knocked down gas pipes, tore holes in water lines and upset the electric wiring. They got the safe out, but left a lot of repair work to be done...