Word: displays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shelter from last week's blizzard, these abstractions looked like good clean lunatic fun. But the people who went there on purpose could point out that the simplified cubes and planes of this unrealistic art have influenced nearly every type of modern decoration, from typography, magazine layout, window display and fashion design to streamlining and modern architecture...
Although the College has associations of everyone from sharpshooters to bird-lovers, the artists have hitherto remained quiet and unorganized. Inspired by last year's display at Winthrop House, the exhibit opening today in the Germanic Museum is the first general cooperative effort by Harvard's undergraduate painters. They have finally decided to make their presence known, and give fame and fortune a chance. It gets pretty tiresome daubing away in a lonely attic unapplauded...
...Delaware Federal court last week, Judge John Biggs Jr. stared thoughtfully at a demonstration of spiral waves, "croquignole" waves, the grotesque spindles, rolls, clamps and gadgets used in 83,000 U. S. beauty shops to help straight-haired women outwit nature. If the display looked frivolous, the lawsuit behind it was not: at stake was some...
...simple if only "fractions of a Representative could be admitted." The number of Representatives is now set by law at 435. So if one State, through population gains, is to gain a seat in the House, another must lose a seat. Losing States must be convinced by a display of clear-cut mathematical theory that their losses are just. Formulas based on unsound mathematics have often led Congress into errors...
...league. Although the present team already has blown its chances of equalling this record by means of an affair with the Big Green on January 10, it is a better team. Coach Wes Fesler himself believes this. By that he means that Captain Franny Simpson and his cohorts display better all-round team play than their larger predecessors...