Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...occupant of the business office by Raymond Mathewson Hood of Manhattan may look out on sooty roofs, but he will see them through a huge, tinted window with dim floral designs in the glass. The staunch desk is metallic, L-shaped, with a built-in clock...
...nude. These he rendered with the infinite photographic spectrum, ranging from dead white to midnight blackness through numberless greys, catching both gleams and shadows. Sometimes he intellectualized this sensuous process, as in his symbolic expression of a short-skirted girl-a picture of a leg superimposed upon the dim image of a face. There is nothing documentary about Stieglitz photographs; they tell no stories, perpetuate no events. They are studies in pure form and tone...
...When I think of the law I see a princess mightier than she who once wrought at Bayeux, eternally weaving into her web dim figures of the ever lengthening past-figures too dim to be noticed by the idle, too symbolic to be interpreted except by her pupils, but to the discerning eye disclosing every painful step and every world-shaking contest by which mankind has worked and fought its way from savage isolation to organic social life...
...October afternoons there is a dim smoke-blue haze lying mystically over the regions up the Charles. The Boston College tower rises almost old-world through the enchantment of diffused sunlight and even the Brighton abattoir deludes one into a vague resentment against its vociferous detractors. The passing of slim, long, smoothly-swinging eights, joyful with the leisurely power of an early season paddle but intensifies the easy rhythm of the scene, while an artistic contrast is afforded by the soft pad-padding of the occasional cross-country candidate. Through the trees the glimpses of the fields persuade one that...
Tactful were the proceedings. The word was whispered to Europeans not to appear in glittering finery which might dim the effect of Signatory Kellogg's sober apparel...