Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...statuettes served as models made in preparation for important works of sculpture. As such they were very rarely preserved, quite in contrast to sketches for paintings which were saved by almost all the great masters. The terra cotta sketches are very fragile which may well account for their rareness. The works are of great importance to art students for they often show greater freshness and originality than the finished product and sometimes in this soft material the very finger of the sculptor can be traced...
...Design, of which Joseph Hudnut is dean, the 47 panels of Soviet plans and photographs were standing a severe if mute criticism. Displayed in the centre of the hall were scale models of housing projects, factories and homes designed not by Russian architects but by Harvard students. By contrast with their clean functionalism, many of the recent Soviet buildings looked confused, bourgeois...
Impossible only a year ago, this contrast was the visible result of a year's steady work by the new chairman of Harvard's Department of Architecture, Bauhaus-Founder Walter Gropius (TIME, Feb. 8. 1937). Nobody would be less disposed than Herr Gropius to exaggerate the merit of his students' free designs at the expense of buildings actually erected, cities actually built under varying conditions in the U. S. S. R. Roughhewn, meditative Architect Gropius, a continual smoker of 5? miniature cigars, has made himself popular at Harvard by teaching a practical esthetic. Resenting architectural "styles" whether...
...present union movement. Some of it is certainly intended for union rackets. Some of it may be inspired by a feeling that Lewis has overplayed his cards and brought a useful cause into popular disrepute. Some of it may even arise from a belief that Green, in contrast with Lewis, has been too inactive in the service of organized labor...
What to do about this deplorable contrast between private and Governmental honesty Author Scherman makes less clear. The essential thing, he suggests, having summed up a laissez-faire program that looks suspiciously like Adam Smith in modern dress, is to "raise the standards of economic literacy among...