Word: exhibited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Hollywood was turning out films about international spies, it was conventional for minor characters in each picture to exhibit abnormal stupidity, thus accenting the shrewdness of the heroes. Last week, a real international spy story spread across U. S. front pages which vividly accented the shrewdness of nobody...
...Classics as "a dull joke" or "definitely exotic" or commit the old fallacy of expressing the term "dead languages" in a tone of contempt. To postulate as a self evident truth the fact that there is nothing of importance in the doings of man before 1900, is to exhibit a downright ignorance of the past and foolishly sublime confidence in the present. The test of and education lies in the degree to which it strengthens individual character. Certainly, experience has shown that it does not convey "immediate, practical, and marketable, qualities" as the Crimson suggests. Personality is marketable...
...arts exhibit features "the only representative collection of Scottish Old Masters ever assembled under one roof." When a Scot commissioned such painters as Sir John Lavery, Sir David Cameron, Allan Ramsay or Alexander Eraser to do his portrait or a bit of native scenery, his heirs somehow managed to keep the picture in the family and few have had to be sold to buyers like Sir Joseph Duveen or Sotheby's of London. The canny private owners were induced to loosen up and loan their paintings for this year's display...
Most picturesque exhibit is a full-scale Highland clachan squat in the middle of the fair's modernistic, pastel-shaded buildings. Like a Rob Roy setting, complete with the chief's castle, a smithy, an old fashioned inn, a bubbling burn and a 1150-ft. loch, the little village is peopled with tartan-clad Highlanders who obligingly raise a "hooech" and a skirl on the pipes for the wide-eyed visitors...
This vast collection, which will be on exhibit in Widener Library next week, includes several of Melville's travel journals, among which are the account of a voyage from New York to London in 1849, a trip "up the Straits" in 1856, and a voyage on board the ship 'Meteor...