Word: beards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Arts for England was purely advisory and enjoyed no actual power, expressed his doubt as to the probability of Town Councillors asking advice from anybody with regard to their public projects. He thus described the making of a memorial statue: "First of all, they select a man with a beard, then they look up the worst local sculptor, and the sculptor goes to the man's tailor and gets a copy of the man's suit, and in time up the thing goes-beard and suit, true to life...
...painting represents a man, a virile Venetian with a full beard, carrying a falcon in his hand, and the suggestion has been made that it is a portrait of Giorgio Cornaro. The picture has all the breadth and freedom of treatment that is associated with Titian's name. Mr. Richter, in his book, says he thinks it was probably painted about...
...only it were possible to gear my lectures to a battery of linotype machines,' Dr. Charles A. Beard, then Chairman of the faculty of the New School for Social Research, once said, in lamenting the fact that after a life time of study he was still teaching at best only a few hundred students each year. And so it is with many others whose work has largely been limited to the confines of the class-room...
...There are scholars, Dr. Beard included, who work up their lectures every few years in text-book form. Such books, however, distilled as a refined product out of their study, are not the same live material as the original lectures. Furthermore, from the stand-point of the publishers it is not practicable to bring out new editions with every advance in a subject. In consequence, text-books are often very much out-of-date. So, with the constant revision and revaluation of knowledge, the lecture is the instrument in education best designed to accomodate itself to the needs...
Luigi Pirandello is a short, slight, active Italian gentleman of some 56 years, with a gray beard and bright brown eyes. He has come to America to witness the performance of a cycle of his plays,* soon to be presented in Manhattan. He has had a remarkably active literary life. After his early studies he became a teacher, an occupation which he has followed at intervals ever since. His output has been stupendous, including six volumes of verse, 365 short stories, novels and 22 plays of varying character. At the root of all his work is a scornful...