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...Rehn Galleries, Manhattan, were exhibited recent paintings by George Bellows, whose Crucifixion (depicting a gaunt, muscular, cumbrous Christ) precipitated violent discussion a month ago (TIME...
...Crucifixion. There, set amid violent lights and shadows, with "portentous storm clouds swirling over Calvary," a gaunt, muscular, physical Christ depends from the cross. The sweet Christ, the mild Christ, the frail Christ are not there. He is a tremendous peasant fellow. His muscles bulge. His members are large, cumbrous, powerful, those of a toiler, of a great struggler. On his face are the passing marks of the death agony, the last contortions of pain passing in the peace of unconsciousness...
Peculiarly written, in a style somewhat reminiscent at moments of the late eighteenth century and at its occasional worst absurdly recollective of the incomparable Daisy Ashford, The Orissers, for all its minor faults, fairly vibrates throughout with cumbrous but genuine power...
...least of our gains in entering the great war is found in the establishment of closer relations with Canada. By appointing the former premier of Nova Scotia resident agent at Washington, the Dominion Government does away with the cumbrous system of conducting purely local or business negotiations through the British Foreign Office at London, and secures better representation of her local needs. To supplement the work of the resident agent, Premier Bordon has made several unpresaged but important visits to the United States for the correlation of our war activities, which must make more effective the movement of our united...
...decidedly weak as the communication printed elsewhere indicates, in demanding a final choice of a special field for College work from Freshmen, often incompetent to judge; and it recognizes this weakness by allowing changes of decision, when the reasons seem sufficient. Cumbrous and disagreeable as it may seem to its critics, they must remember that it accomplishes--however much vacillation it may permit--three ends: specialization in one group to the extent of six courses; distribution in the three other groups to the extent of six courses; and a pretty careful reflection by students over their choice. The first means...