Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Established in 1925 by Charles C. Stillman '98 in memory of Charles Eliot Norton '46, professor of the History of Art, the Norton Chair of Poetry must be held by a man of "high distinction and international reputation...
From room to room Director Barr has arranged his exhibits to trace the development of abstract art from the Cubists, who formalized what was still representational art, to the latest Constructivists whose esthetic thrills come from the mere sight of wheels within wheels...
Meanwhile at the Museum Director Barr gulped coffee and puffed cigarets, as he tried to explain why two wooden balls dangling on wires from a bit of bent pipe should be considered art. Three days before the exhibition opened printers were waiting anxiously for the catalog of which Director Barr had composed only six pages. Excerpt...
...gossamer cache-sexe (TIME, July 29 et ante). The court reaffirmed Poetess Warner's fine of 50 francs ($3.30), lowered the restaurant owner's fine from 250 to 50 francs. Carefully the judges pointed out that the ruling does not prevent Miss Warner from practicing her art in theatres and music halls...
When asked whether a poet could write on subjects with which he had no acquaintance, Mr. Frost replied that the substance of poetry, although it might not come from the writer's own experience, must at least be the product of his contacts with books, works of art, or people...