Word: artes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Time Capsule, not to be opened for 5,000 years. Into the capsule they had crammed a cross-section of 20th-century culture- films, clothing, articles "pertaining to the grooming and vanity of women," poker chips, slips of paper, dimes and dictionaries, reproductions of art, letters, music, a copy of TIME'S 15th-anniversary issue (February 28) on microfilm. Three items chosen to show the "Futurian Man" typical prodigies of 20th-century music were: 1) Finlandia by Jean Sibelius; 2) The Stars & Stripes Forever by John Philip Sousa; 3) Flat Foot Floogie by Bud Green, Slim Gaillard, Slam Stewart...
That the Chinese knew all about the art of printing long before Gutenburg set up type for his first bible is strikingly evidenced by the little publicized but at the same time one of the most priceless possessions of Widener--a fragment of wood-block engraving from China, designed...
...needed jazz and expected too much from it; he kept playing never satisfied, until he could not keep pace with hi sown playing. Yet those very limits show what swing really is; the crazy almost destructive life that goes with it is part of a native American form of art a noisy yet magnetic medium for American creation...
Among the noted Europeans to be present in Cambridge are the Very Reverned Walter R. Matthews, Dean of St. Paul's, London; Sigfried Giedion. Swiss art historian and a leading figure in modern architecture...
Among the noted Europeans to be present in Cambridge are the Very Reverend Walter R. Matthews, Dean of St. Paul's London; Sigfried Giedlon, Swiss art historian and a leading figure in modern architecture: Kai Linderstrom-Lang, professor at the Carlsberg Laboratorium, Copenhagen, one of the world's leading research workers in histochemistry; and Richard W. Southwell, professor of Engineering, Brasenose College, Oxford...