Word: academicized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"A considerable number won't return, although they now think they will," he said. "It's difficult to return to academic rules, having your days planned by other people, when you've been out on your own."
N.A.W.A.'s 52nd exhibition proved once again that, whatever the flaming hopes of its founders, most U.S. women artists today are limited to the competent, the academic, the derivative, the studious.
Died. Percy Selden Straus, 67, onetime president of Manhattan's mammoth R. H. Macy & Co. department store (1933-40), last of the third generation of Straus merchandisers; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. The high-domed Harvardman ('97) Put aside academic ambitions to enter Macy's, remained...
Long a mainstay of Britain's ultraconservative Royal Academy, Artist Brangwyn is best known in the U.S. for his arch-academic murals in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center (R.C.A. Building's lobby). Sir Frank once fell afoul of British womanhood when he was misreported as having criticized the...
Cramming schools, which are not mentioned in polite academic society, often include brilliant teachers and teaching.* British education also has its cramming crypts. The most famed, and hoarier than many U.S. colleges, is "Jimmy's" of London (Carlisle & Gregson, Ltd.), which last week was cramming young men for the...