Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confused as to what makes a liberal as liberals are about underdogs. A few months ago you had Walter Lippmann neatly defined as at once liberal and conservative, in March you said Paul Anderson could now write "liberal" articles, meaning pro-New Deal, and two weeks ago your Art critic did some fancy theological hairsplitting about Old Liberal Lippmann and New Liberal Lewis Mumford, the sense of which was that they had nothing in common. After that I expected the worst, which came last week: "The partners in a Yorkshire textile mill, Alfred Armistead, liberal Conservative, and Henry Hinchliffe, conservative...
While on the general subject of admissions, Dean Landis expressed great worry about the trend to requirements for pre-legal education. "There is hardly a subject that has no relation to law," he said. "Lawyers should acquaint themselves with other aspects of our civilization--art, literature, and music. The chief present need is for men with broad vision who will keep the law functioning adequately." At the same time Mr. Landis expressed his disgust for the American passion for formalistic training--the "peculiar belief" that you've to take a course in a subject to learn anything...
From the Helen Clay Frick private collection of works of art there has recently come to the Fogg Museum a loan of some thirty paintings. On account of the number and diversified character, they are exhibited, at least for the present, among the Museum's other pictures. Many of them deserve mention, but the leaders in general interest are three portraits by Romney, Reynolds, and Raeburn...
...should convene and formulate a general plan of teaching that will be carried out by each. Similarity in method makes for consistency in accomplishment. The superficial coaching in the dramatic, narrative, and like forms of composition could well be eliminated, and instead more time given to the fundamental art of exposition. It is more to the point of a Harvard degree that the undergraduate know how to compile bibliographies, take notes, organize papers, and use a simple, clear style than to imitate Hemingway and Joyce. If Harvard desires well-rounded graduates, full of distribution and concentration, it must establish...
...collection of five "novellas" chosen from Story magazine, which they edit. Although the book was launched to the accompaniment of resounding praise by short-story experts, any one of whose superlatives could qualify as the blurb of the week, readers less attentive to the nuances of the art might have difficulty in seeing what the "novellas" gained by being three times as long as short stories. Said Novelist Dorothy Canfield Fisher of one story: "As beautifully simple, fresh, lucid and moving a recreation of a childhood and its ending as I have ever read." Said Short-Story Anthologist Edward...