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...spectacle to which he referred was an 11-ft., 7-ton statue of Christ propped against the wall in London's swank Leicester Galleries, the latest work of a heavyset, U. S.-born Jewish sculptor, Jacob Epstein. Entitled Ecce Homo ("Behold the Man"), the great bas-relief slab showed a huge square head, nearly as large as the torso, with thick sad lips, sightless almond eyes, and two great hands tied with rope. That was about...
...came the great Rima bas-relief in Hyde Park. Outraged Britons screamed about the lady's "hamlike hands," made speeches on street corners and smeared with green paint this portrayal of the ethereal heroine of Naturalist William Henry Hudson's Green Mansions (TIME, June...
...memorial, a bas-relief, will be placed in the Freshman Union in regard for the fact that Mr. Pennypacker was closely associated with the Freshman classes until his death in 1933. President Emeritus Lowell has agreed to write an inscription for the tablet...
...German-Danish adventurer of unsavory reputation who has spent his life among the savages of the interior, and who is planning a search in those parts for a French deserter, wanted by the authorities. Together Perken and Claude find the Royal Way, eventually discover a temple with valuable bas-reliefs, which they hack off, load on their bullock-carts. Then they begin the slow fight through the jungle back to safety and fortune. First their drivers desert. Then they fall into the hands of the savage Mois. In the village where they are held captive Perken finds the French deserter...
...explain his interest in the art of achieving a dictatorship. When he refused to sign a declaration of obedience to the Third Reich, he lost his property, including his library. His troubles with Hitlerism are very probably behind the note of passionate conviction that crops out in Le Bas' speech to Louis at the close of Another Caesar. Says Le Bas...