Word: brightnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Right People, The bright and shining coming-of-age gift of universal suffrage and free democratic elections promised Russia by Comrade Stalin's Constitution (TiME, June 15, 1936, et seq.), being something new in Russia, naturally did not take quite the form which it has in Capitalist nations...
...members of an organization known as The Limited Editions Club, which, for annual dues of $120, has since 1929 been sending them twelve Fine Books a year. Also on hand were four well-known U. S. artists, cherubic John Steuart Curry, swarthy Thomas Benton, freckle-fisted Reginald Marsh and bright-nosed Henry Varnum Poor. To them the Limited Editions Club's suave Director George Macy awarded four $2,000 "fellowships" to support them while each illustrated a suitable U. S. classic, as yet unnamed...
There may be truth in the assertion that Harvard "looks the other way" on bright young men who have startling ideas and delight in using such a place as Harvard as a sounding board for the spread of their youthful ideas. But that is only half, or even less, of the picture. For when real intellectual prowess makes its appearance on the field the young and old of Harvard delight to lend ear. Blind enthusiasm cannot be substituted for thought, nor can real thought fail in the end to win its way through to the heart of Harvard...
...purse. She got a Montparnasse garret so small that she had to lean halfway out of the window to paint at all. Already she had developed a style. She wanted to paint the mythical world of 1900 (eight years before she was born), when ladies wore feather boas and bright feathers in their hats, when gentlemen had whiskers and drank champagne. Because she was much prettier than any model she could afford, she painted herself...
...playwright has enough to say he needs neither sets nor costumes to help him say it. What Mr. Blitzstein has to say concerns what happens to bosses and workers when a steel town goes on strike. If sometimes he uses stock characters and stock works, he more often uses bright, biting satire. The audience laughs out loud when the spoiled son and daughter of a steelmaster try to throw off their ill-natured boredom with a tinny song about spooning and crooning, when a college president and his professors shout mealy-mouthed patriotic jingo. There is good, contemptuous laughter behind...