Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what virtues suffice to justify the sort of entertainment carried on by The Old Howard or Park Burlesque? This is but one evidence of the irony of entrusting things intellectual to men whose only experience is in things political. David C. Adkins, chairman of the Alliance, suggested that "the art department head might be in a better position to have a more equable understanding of the theatre and its problems than the Chief Justice of the Municipal Court...
...theory of Harvard College is to give a broad cultural education, it seems to me that a course in Fine Arts should be available. Ideally, its object would be to interest the student who is going to be a bank president in art, and enable him to make intelligent comments when visiting foreign art galleries on his honeymoon...
This policy of sending out such traveling exhibitions is the result of an experiment tried out last year, in which the Germanic Museum cooperated with Cambridge Public schools in presenting a series of lectures with movies, on the history of art from ancient times to the present...
...course was given to selected students from the eighteen public schools in Cambridge and the lecture topics included the Art of Egypt, the Cathedrals of the Middle Ages, Art Treasures of the Vatican, and American Colonial Silver Work. Special excursions were also made to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston...
...Modern Times" is of the same jolly crew as "City Lights" and "The Gold Rush". It is silent, and the lost art of pantomime finds a joyful revival. Charlie is so much more eloquent than if he were to speak in words! For with his cane, his derby, and his short moustache, with his wan smile, his angelic grin, his simpering indignation, and his dandy waddle, Charlie can discuss anything but metaphysics. When an ugly cop lowers a him his dumb show cries out, "All right, all right, officer, you needn't use force...