Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Yiddish realist playwrights, marked the beginning of the realist movement which is still dominant. The Jews have a strong artistic sentiment, and value their plays, not as sources of amusement, but as true reflections of their surroundings. Their realistic plays have many faults; they are too harrowing in detail, and they are often grossly incongruous. But with all their faults they have great force and great sincerity, for the playgoers are critical and the drama which they approve must be sternly true to their everyday life...
...Lampoon comes out today. The issue contains three excellent drawings of the conventional type of men and girl in evening clothes, by R. Edward '01. There are two drawings by E. R. Little '04 of a more original sort with less work in detail but which are rather humorous. A wash drawing by S. F. Peck '04 and a headpiece design by P. Bartlett '02 are also very good...
Photographic work differs from the painter's in that the painter resorts to his own inner imaginative creation and moulds his production in every detail in accordance with it, while the camera worker can only what beauty he may find in nature. There is an element of selection in each case. The painter selects from the landscape only those elements that correspond to his imaginative ideal, while the photographer selects such a view as is in itself best arranged. The one selects all the details at will, the other such parts of nature as are best composed. Thus...
...drawn. Further than this, editors of the CRIMSON knew when this editorial was printed, that in a question of discipline in the baseball nine last spring, the correspondents in concert supported the captain of the team; they knew that for three years the correspondents have refrained from describing in detail any play used by the football eleven; they knew that for the help given to the captain of last fall's 'Varsity eleven, himself a CRIMSON editor, the correspondents received the expression of his sincere gratitude; they knew that the correspondents suppressed a "story" of a Harvard undergraduate...
William Garrott Brown '91, deputy keeper of the University Records, has written the life of Andrew Jackson, an interesting account of this picturesque personage, whose true place in our history has always been a disputed question. The book does not enter the field of minute detail and criticism; it is "for those who would rather understand than judge him." Mr. Brown writes of his character charitably but without bias; he does not attempt to diagnose his faults or condone his vices, but he does not dwell upon them with distorting emphasis. The Creek and Seminole wars, the battle...