Word: chapters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beta Kappa Chapter last night announced the selection of the Senior Sixteen for the Class...
Alchemists turned out to be an un appreciated and neglected lot, because they failed to make gold. Arthur Dove (1880-1946) was an alchemist in art. He too was unappreciated, and perhaps he too failed ever to achieve his goal. But Dove's devoted experiments make an intriguing chapter in U.S. art. The liveliness and evanescent loveliness of Dove's efforts are demonstrated this week by a retrospective show at Cornell University's White Museum of Art in Ithaca, N.Y. The exhibition proves him to have been an early source of the abstract expressionism which...
With success in sight, the ministers burst into encomiums. Dulles spoke of "a near miracle ... a shining chapter of history." Said Mendès: "Tomorrow we shall put a happy end to our work together. We shall be able to tell our Parliaments and our public that we have reached agreement." Said Konrad Adenauer: "The German people feel with great emotion the importance of this day." The formal signings were scheduled for next...
...weaknesses are most evident when it turns half-heartedly to criticism and attempted explications of his novels as it does with A Fable in the last chapter. Here, after outlining the complex plot of the book and commenting on its obvious aspects, Coughlin rather despairingly admits his incapacity to treat it fully or even profitably. "The heavy burden of symbolism of A Fable doubtless will keep Faulkner scholars busy for many years to come. . . The book, on the whole, seems demented...
...adventures in Hollywood, however, Coughlin weakens the book with an overdose of anecdotes. He seems to become so involved with the writer's eccentricities that, instead of trying to explain them or put them in proper perspective, he piles amusing incidents on the reader so heavily that the chapter largely destroys the clear outline of Faulkner the man that he has sketched in the earlied part of the book...