Word: classics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those days Steichen spelled his first name "Eduard." He was a painter as well as a photographer and his photographs tended to be Whistlerian. Rembrandtesque or merely misty. Stieglitz, who never painted a stroke, was meanwhile doing a number of clear, cold outdoor pictures which have since become classic examples of great photography. In 1917 and 1918 "Eduard'' saw much more of France than he had ever seen before. He saw it from above, as chief of the photographic section of the U. S. Air Service. In aerial photography clarity is the first and last requisite. When...
...starting lineup, Nee replaced Drulis of Temple at left guard for five minutes in the charity classic...
...seven reels, and whether, even if the plot held up, an audience would care about the fate of characters who were just drawings, was convinced that Walt Disney had done it again. Snow White is as exciting as a Western, as funny as a haywire comedy. It combines the classic idiom of folklore drama with rollicking comic-strip humor. A combination of Hollywood, the Grimm Brothers, and the sad, searching fantasy of universal childhood, it is an authentic masterpiece, to be shown in theatres and beloved by new generations long after the current crop of Hollywood stars, writers and directors...
...GOOD SOCIETY sociological classic. Middle town...
...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...