Word: displaying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...figures of the delegates from Moscow at the end of the second act, and the Tsar and Tsarina, with the beggars at one side, at the end of the fifth act. And mention must be made of the costumes. Rarely has a play been set with the beauty and display of brilliance that one sees here. In fact, if the Moscow players can extract so much from a play of the type of Tolstoy's "Tsar Fyodor", and can hold an audience enthralled that does not understand the language, one looks forward eagerly to their playing of "The Lower Depths...
Among the features of the display, which will be made under the direction of Mr. H. C. Block, will be advance information on new books, talks on the modern novelists, and the secrets of good book making. Professor W. L. Phelps, commenting on a similar exhibition held at Yale recently, said, "I am very glad that Mr. Block is exhibiting this afternoon some of Alfred Knopf's publications. Mr. Knopf is one of the most enterprising of modern publishers, and many of his books are interesting and valuable. The manuscripts and rare books are very fascinating and Mr. Block...
Students in school and college habitually display a self-conscious reticence about revealing their "inner selves" which serves as well to conceal the absence as the presence of ideas. Religion has been so much regarded as a purely personal matter that it is often stiffed for lack of an airing. For the purpose of bringing religion out in serious discussion with eminent and interesting men the Silver Bay conference is held yearly...
...books published by the University Press during the past one and a half years and numbering about sixty or seventy volumes are now on exhibition on the shelves in the delivery room of the Widener Library. In addition to this display of books, current catalogues of the Press for free distribution will be found in the delivery room as well as at the various bookshops on Harvard Square...
...most epicurean locusts, and grows herbs to satisfy the meanest grub. At Jamaica Plain and in the Forest at Petersham are grown and studied all varieties of North American plants and trees; the Arboretum's annual "lilac week", which is nearly due, brings visitors from all distances; and the display of azaleas and rhododendrons which follows is equally notable...