Word: bitlis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wasn't your article a bit of a hodgepodge of this & that without getting to the point? Was the article on Oxnam or the World Council? Was it critical, raising questions which the World Council did not attempt to settle, or was it reporting a "fuzzy meeting...
...German Dadaists (who pretended to despise art) of post-World War I. One Grosz number: a brutish-looking portrait with a cut-out of a mechanical pump where the heart should be. Max Ernst (who has since gravitated logically to surrealism) attached a lady's legs to a bit of lace, pasted both on a cloudy sky and called his faintly sinister porridge Above the Clouds Walks the Midnight...
...instead. In 1900, Barnard College was officially declared the undergraduate college for women of Columbia University. It maintains its own faculty, and remains completely independent of Columbia College It has, however, a tradition reminiscent of Columbia's Freshman--Sophomore Rush, except that at Barnard they dress it up a bit and call it the Greek Games. The Greek Games consist of chariot races--one girl pulling, another wielding the whip and other Grecoid divertisements. The Games are reputed to be an even finer spectacle than the Wellesley Hoop Race...
...show it. The best of them look as if they had taken him a happy half-hour. In the film, Matisse gives away the secret of that effect, letting the camera peer over his shoulder while he draws his grandson's portrait again & again and then paints a bit from a girl model. The secret: speed of execution (which need not imply hasty conception...
Manhattan papers chose to ignore most of the story. But the New York Star added its bit of mystery. It told about a memo written by Cissie Patterson after a squabble with her cousin, the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Bertie McCormick, over management of the family's New York Daily News. Shortly before Cissie's death, said the Star, she wrote Bertie a memo that she was going to change her will...