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Whittier "really deserves a place with Walt Whitman among our great American poets," unconvinced readers may still prefer James Russell Lowell's dictum: "If we should attempt to depict the peculiar characteristic of Whittier, we should say that of all poets he most truly deserved the name orator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Celibate | 8/7/1933 | See Source »

...representation of Bob Lampoon, who was for many years the janitor of the Lampoon building, and has now become a traditional figure. Byman Bloom is the author of two collections of supporter sketches. These of one group, which are similar in style to the works of George Rellows, depict different wrestlers, while the others are sccues from a circus, reminiscent of the French artist. Tonleuse Lautree...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOGG OPENS EXHIBIT OF NEW METHOD ART WORK | 2/10/1933 | See Source »

...Paramount's version of Ernest Hemingway's Farewell to Arms is revamped to remove all reference to the disastrous Italian retreat from Caporetto during the War, all future Paramount films will be banned from Italy. Further, this may apply to all U. S. films if the present tendency to depict Italians as villains and naughty fellows is not corrected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Retort | 8/29/1932 | See Source »

...Pilsudski in intent. Three years ago he moved to Paris to live. L'Illustration printed several of his Paris street scenes. British editors were entranced. He went to London to make a series of drawings for the Graphic. In January FORTUNE imported him to the U. S. to depict political and financial leaders. Artist Czermanski speaks no English, converses in firmly Slavic French. Even so he finds New Yorkers sympathetic, far easier to know than either Londoners or Parisians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Caricaturist | 5/30/1932 | See Source »

Films used in Professor Dixon's course on Oceanica depict the intimate lives and habits of the Polynesians, Melanesians, and inhabitants of the East Indies. Tribal dances and customs such as fire walking in the Fiji Islands, and tatooing and tapa making in Samoa, are shown in detail...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Motion Pictures Used With Success In Illustrating Courses In Anthropology--Film Library To Be Set Up at Peabody | 5/18/1932 | See Source »

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