" Boucher and McComas, however, were less enthusiastic, faulting the book for being " simply padded, occasionally with startlingly ingenious gimmickry,.

Boucher and McComas praised Chronicles as " a poet's interpretation of future history beyond the limits of any fictional form ".

Boucher and McComas gave The Illustrated Man a mixed review, faulting the framing story as " markedly ineffective " and the story selection for seeming " less than wisely chosen.

Boucher and McComas found the novel to be " a fine example of serious pulp science fiction .".

Boucher and McComas characterized The Puppet Masters as " a thunderously exciting melodrama of intrigue ", noting that Heinlein displayed " not only his usual virtues of clear logic, rigorous detail-work, and mastery of indirect exposition ", but also unexpected virtues like " a startling facility in suspense devices a powerful ingenuity in plotting ".

Boucher and McComas characterized Beyond This Horizon as among " the finest science fiction novels of the modern crop .".

" Boucher and McComas named it among the best sf novels of 1951, characterizing it as " more mature than most ' adult ' science fiction .".

" Boucher and McComas praised it for its " good character-development, rousing adventure-telling, and brilliant creation of several forms of extra-Terrestrial life.

" Boucher and McComas named Farmer " just about the only mature science fiction novel of the year, describing it as " a magnificently detailed study of the technological and human problems of interplanetary colonization.

Boucher and McComas praised the 1950 edition as Heinlein " at his superlative best .".

" Boucher and McComas, however, described the collection as " mpressive in its time, and important in the development of modern science fiction ," but found it highly uneven, " with pages worthy of the mature 1954 Heinlein.

Boucher and McComas praised it as " easily the most plausible, carefully detailed picture of an interplanetary future we will encounter in any year ".

Boucher and McComas, however, were more sceptical, finding fault with the novel's " curious imbalance between its large-scale history and a number of episodic small-scale stories.

Boucher and McComas praised it, saying " rarely have the details of collapse been treated with such detailed plausibility and human immediacy, and never has the collapse been attributed to such an unusual and terrifying source .".

Boucher and McComas praised Eric Brighteyes, saying that " nothing has been written in English that matches this complete comprehension of the blend of the fury and mysticism that was that greatest of anomalies, the Viking.

Boucher and McComas found the first installments of the series " a most misguided venture, well below juvenile TV or comic book average in crudity of prose, construction, character and ideas.

Boucher and McComas were disappointed by the novel, saying that despite Asimov's good ideas, " his heavy treatment and routine plot are disappointing.

Reviewing the 1953 American edition for a genre audience, Boucher and McComas were unsympathetic.

Boucher and McComas, however, found it " competent enough writing and thinking, if on the dull side .".

" Boucher and McComas, however, panned the volume, declaring that " Anyone with a nodding acquaintance with Gibbon, Breasted, or Prescott will find no new concepts save the utterly incomprehensible ones contained in the author's own personal science of ' psycho-history '.

" Boucher and McComas named it to their " year's best " list, describing it as " Human, satirical, and excisting ;.

It began as The Magazine of Fantasy ( Fall 1949 ), with Anthony Boucher and J. Francis McComas as editors.

Boucher was writing radio scripts in the late 1940s, but he left dramatic radio in 1948, as he explained to William F. Nolan, " mainly because I was putting in a lot of hours working with J. Francis McComas in creating what soon became The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

In actuality, four years passed as Boucher and McComas attempted to launch their magazine of fantasy and supernatural stories.

'" In the short story form, however, Boucher finds that Bond's tales " are proportionate " and that Fleming's " prose ... is eminently smooth and readable " even if " Bond's triumphs are too simple and lack ... intricate suspense ".

When Emery was hurt midway through the season, however, Boucher was thrust into the spotlight with mediocre results.

Leighton, however, excelled in Boucher's absence, and Boucher found himself backing up Leighton.

Emery soon re-injured himself, however, so Boucher was at least dressing behind Leighton, who once again was playing well.

" Anthony Boucher, however, characterized most of the shorter pieces as inferior work, excluded from Clarke's previous collection, but praised two ( unspecified ) novelettes as " uniquely authentic Clarke.

More importantly however, it was the fastest ever hundred by a South African batsman against any opposition, although the record would be broken later in the year by Mark Boucher.

" Boucher and McComas, however, found Golden Apples to be a " most uncertain reading experience.

Anthony Boucher found Blish's protagonist " a credible and moving figure ," and praised the opening segment ; however he faulted the later material for " los focus and impact " and " wander " to an ending that seems " merely chaotic.

Anthony Boucher, however, proceeded to publish it, and it remains in print today, at one time even appearing in a high school literature textbook.

The curtains were of the same material, and there were some big oil paintings -- portraits in the style of Lancret and Boucher.

Among the other artists, whose paintings were discussed were Boucher, Courbet, Fra Angelico.

Boucher was a Rococo painter, but tastes were changing, and the fashion for Rococo was giving way to a more classical style.

In addition to Hill, Timm and Étienne, these were William Alpers, George Loder, Louis Wiegers and Alfred Boucher.

Several French paintings entered the collection as part of the 260 paintings and miniatures ( not all the works were French, for example Carlo Crivelli's Virgin and Child ) that formed part of the Jones bequest of 1882 and as such are displayed in the galleries of continental art 1600-1800, including the portrait of François, Duc d ' Alençon by François Clouet, Gaspard Dughet and works by François Boucher including his portrait of Madame de Pompadour dated 1758, Jean François de Troy, Jean-Baptiste Pater and their contemporaries.

The most famous painters of the era were Antoine Watteau, François Boucher and Jean-Honoré Fragonard.

His principal works were De Regno et Regali Potestate ( 1600 ), a strenuous defence of the rights of kings, in which he refutes the doctrines of those he coins monarchomachs: George Buchanan, “ Junius Brutus ” ( Hubert Languet or Philippe de Mornay ) and Jean Boucher ; and De Potestate Papae ( 1609 ), in opposition to the usurpation of temporal powers by the pope, which called forth the celebrated reply of Cardinal Bellarmine ; also commentaries on some of the titles of the Pandects.

Numerous other artisans, sculptors and portrait painters were employed, among them the court artist Jean-Marc Nattier, in the 1750s François Boucher, Jean-Baptiste Réveillon and François-Hubert Drouais.

Most episodes were written by the team of Dennis Green and Anthony Boucher.

What Boucher and McComas were striving to reach was a literary plateau far above the pulp plotlines and action-adventures many associated with the genre, and one way they achieved this was with a concentration on reprints.

The story prefaces Boucher wrote were carefully calculated to pull the reader into the first paragraphs of the stories, setting the tone while providing background information and insights.

Following McComas and Boucher were other book critics, including Alfred Bester, Damon Knight, Avram Davidson, Judith Merril, James Blish, Joanna Russ, Algis Budrys, John Clute, Orson Scott Card, Charles de Lint, Elizabeth Hand and Michelle West.

French immigrants to the United States ( both those of Huguenot and those of French Canadian background ) often accommodated those unfamiliar with French pronunciations and spellings by altering their surnames in either of two ways: spellings were changed to fit the traditional pronunciation ( Pariseau became Parizo, Boucher became Bushey, Mailloux became Mayhew ), or pronunciations were changed to fit the spelling ( Benoît, pronounced, became ).

He used his time at Rome in applying to the study of nature and the development of his own powers all that he gleaned from the masterpieces around him ; but his tendencies were so foreign to the reigning taste that on his return to Paris he owed his admission to the academy for his picture " Daedalus and Icarus " ( Louvre ) solely to the indignant protests of François Boucher.

Two of Quebec premiers, Charles-Eugène Boucher de Boucherville and John Jones Ross were members of the Legislative Council.

Although the Flyers were ahead 3-1 in the Eastern Conference Finals against the Devils and despite the return of the injured Eric Lindros, Boucher and the Flyers lost in seven games to the eventual Stanley Cup champion New Jersey Devils.