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...book represents a vitriolic commentary on the art of modern building, and constitutes the brilliant manifesto of an avowed heretic. The keynote of the work is to be found in the dictum, "All great architecture is true to its Architects' immediate present...
...facility in arousing public feeling. "The Boston Evening American" with Mayor Russell as lead off man gave various citizens an opportunity to brand the ill-advised drawing with the telling marks of their disapproval. The Reverend Mr. Duval has attempted to stop the smoking mouth of Lampy with the dictum that the cartoon is "the worst insult ever perpetrated by a college publication against womanhood." William Randolph Hearst, tycoon of the "American" and one time Lampoon editor did not choose to comment. It only remains for the Boston press to hand out their ever ready award of bibs and lollypops...
Harvard men are snobbish, aesthetic, indifferent, blase, indolent, sloppily dressed, and proud of an anglophile accent. The novelty of such conjectures by these devotees of James and Neitzsche is no whit more surprising than their dictum that the breed infesting the environs of Cambridge is also democratic, lacking in artistic appreciation, interested in life, naive, go-getters, and good American boys. They are attired faultlessly. That is the indictment of Dartmouth and the sisters sufficiently far across the common. Dartmouth, according to the consensus of opinion expressed by its contemporaries is one long Wah-hoo-Wah plus a touching love...
Sumner of Yale (folkways, etc.) and his dictum that what Ethan Allen probably said to Capt. Delaplace at Ticonderoga was "Surrender, you blank-blank blank-of-a-blank." Simmer's interest was debunking history, de flating legends of false heroics...
...Painter Picasso, aloof, never has sought to lead a school. Rarely has he issued a dictum on art that was not curt, cryptic. What he thinks about himself and his followers is largely a mystery. When Creative Art lately obtained a translation of a long Picasso letter published in 1926 by the Russian review Ogoniok, it published excerpts as leading article in its June issue, out last week...