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...collection of Impressionist & Post-Impressionist art to the Louvre. For all of the painters the honor was posthumous.* Their long, tempestuous trial at the Luxembourg outlasted their lives. They had tried to paint what they perceived as current realities. Often they were frustrated, tortured in the patient attempts to convey the actualities of their vision. But they believed in an art stimulated by the living, not the dead. For this they were excoriated by a host of pompous academicians, who applauded apes of the classical tradition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: To the Louvre | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

Other acts manage to remain on a par with the Olsen outfit and in fact convey the impression that the Keith management has gone to New York and not Oskaloosa for its talent. As a departure from accepted Hub tradition, this deserves notice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 11/30/1928 | See Source »

...mere whimper, and concentrate on the delectable vision conjured up by their mother's words. At last their vigil is rewarded and the familiar step of their progenitor echoes through the open transom. But as the door swings open upon the expectant group, one glance suffices to convey the dire truth that the father's quest has been in vain. Abstract knowledge is the only sustenance he has to offer in the eyes of the brave mother...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: I Can't Give You Anything But Love | 11/13/1928 | See Source »

...cheering on the appearance of the Happy Warrior was the peak of the New England trip, perhaps the peak of his campaign. When it was stilled, Mrs. Sayre quoted what Woodrow Wilson said of Alfred Emanuel Smith. Another outburst. Then the Nominee spoke: ". . . We shall use words to convey our meaning?if the orators in the gallery will only just subside shall use words to convey our meaning, not to hide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle of the Atlantic | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

...main concern of Nominee Smith's speech last week at Boston. The technique was characteristically Smithian, taking a text out of his opponent's mouth and working for a reductio ad absurdum. The Boston text was Mr. Hoover's: "We shall use words to convey our meaning, not to hide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Smith Speeches | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

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