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BEVERLY CAHILL Winslow, Ariz...
Myopic Triumph. In Miami, arrested for firing a shotgun at six rowdy teen-agers who were throwing rocks at his house and slightly wounding two of them, William Winslow Gordon, 79, explained with satisfaction: "I've shot at them lots of times before, but I'm nearsighted, and this is the first time I ever was lucky enough...
Whitman's appraisal of Eakins still stands. Next to Winslow Homer, Eakins (1844-1916) is the finest painter America has produced, and is still sneered at by some "professional elects." Eakins made art the servant of honesty; he chose showing over showiness, and thereby earned the lasting admiration of men who, like Whitman, place the true even higher than they do the beautiful...
...greatest realists America has produced were men of the late 19th century: Philadelphia's Thomas Eakins and New England's Winslow Homer. The Eakins and Homer opposite are public favorites respectively at the Fort Worth Art Center and the Butler Art Institute (in Youngstown, Ohio). These are not subtle or even vastly skilled pictures, and they hardly relate to European traditions. Eakins' gawky and youths are a far cry figure from the bland, beautiful athletes of classical sculpture and Renaissance figure painting. Homer's schoolboys-like real ones-are more energetic than graceful...
Half a year earlier, the senior class had voted for its officers. Nine men; Winslow Carlton, Forrester A. Clark, James de Normandie, Arthur E. French, Jr., David Guarnaccia, James L. Reid, Richard A. Stout, John Tudor, and William S. Young-man, Jr. were nominated for marshals; Hulburd Johnston and Alan R Sweezy for treasurer; John K. Fairbank, Lawrence T. Grimm, and Norman Winer for orator; Alan R. Blackburn, Peter J. W. Bove and James H. Sachs for Ivy Orator; Robeson Bailey and Peter I. Dunne for poet; Philip Hichborn and Chauncey D. Stillman for odist; and James R. Carter, Richard...