Word: aspects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Another aspect of the grand manner as it is found in Secretary Mellon is his instinct for beautiful things. There is a richness about the sombre furniture and dark blue upholstery in his office which nothing in official Washington approaches, not even the redecorated White House. His apartment on Massachusetts Avenue is hung, not with an Art Collection, but with pictures of lovely women, unmistakable gentlemen, young girls, old ladies, painted because they were fit subjects for fine art by Vermeer, Van Dyck, Gainsborough, Romney, Lawrence, Hals, Rembrandt, and bought by Andrew Mellon because life is a fine...
...Putnam apparently did not see this aspect of the college situation at all: she was interested in directly stimulating attention to studies. But she has done better than she know. She has strengthened a professional bugabear until it is threatening to bite the professors. Come to think of it, a public review of what is being taught in the classrooms seem an eminently healthful development...
...establishment of inclusive standards at na time when national literature has run aground in the twin streams of unapplied realism, and unrelated, subjective aestheticism. Agreeing with these critics, Mr. Munson still seeks the seeds of renaissance in the attempts of the young writers he cites. In its broader aspect, this attempt is unconvincing. The youthful obfuscations, artful vignettes though they often are, are such weak voices crying in dissonance with the other weak voices in a wilderness of theory and abstraction that the significance which Mr. Munson doughtily reads into them approaches an amusing incongruity. Nor are his admissions...
...this threat lay in the fact that France does not yet produce sufficient cinema dramas to supply even one-third of her own demand. Therefore if the U. S. film industry boycotted France some 8,000 French cinema theatre employes would shortly be thrown out of work. When that aspect of the situation was ruthlessly pressed home to the French Cinema Commission by impatient Mr. Hays its members entered into a final down-to-business conference with him which began at 10:30 one morning last week, and concluded amicably with the drafting of a working agreement...
...characteristics of makeup, news and editorial writing has been accompanied by a general forward looking by the entire group of preparatory school journalists. The college paper had not long dared the photographic supplement before the schoolboy found this innovation within the ability of his hand. To confirm the permanent aspect of the newspaper of the preparatory school has come that hallmark of respectability, the news service...