Word: classics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the Boston Museum of Fine Arts unveiled certain murals on classic subjects which he had painted to embellish its walls; opened at the same time the most comprehensive exhibition of his work which has ever been shown...
Sargent was a great draughtsman and well equipped to champion, in a leveling age, the traditions of an imperious past. The Boston murals all treat classic subjects: Chiron teaching a very delicate Achilles how to handle a bow; Atlas stooping among the golden girls of the Hesperides; Hercules, with a billet the size of a railroad tie in his fist, fencing with the Hydra's ducking heads...
...even this powerful means of communion of the stage with the spectators is limited in its potency. . . In a whole series of dramas, classic as well as modern, the feeling of terror is sometimes suggested to the spectator, not only by word and mimicry, but by the very object of his terror, for instance, the ghost, or some other object of hallucination. The object of the dramatist here is clear; in order that the spectator may have at a given moment nearly the same experience as the acting character, it is necessary that he see the same thing...
Having made its discovery, the Bureau lapsed into silence again, with perfunctory repetition of the classic hortative: "Closer co-operation between the teacher and parent...
Curiously enough, the whole motor industry is now operating on Henry Ford's classic idea-that many small profits amount to more than a few large profits. Practically all motor companies have slashed their prices sharply. Never before did a dollar buy so much in automobiles as today. This universal move has been greeted by the public with a purchasing of motors which even the most optimistic scarcely thought possible one year ago. In the beginning (TIME, Jan. 12) the price slashing between motor companies seemed to point inevitably to elimination of the weaker companies, which is already...