Word: explains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus last week greying, hulking Alexander ("Sandy") Calder tried to explain to the press the collection of mysterious objects made of bits of wire, scraps of bright tin, cardboard, wood and strips of felt which, with a grinding of toy gears and hum of little electric motors, bounced and joggled, slithered and woggled in the Manhattan Gallery of Pierre Matisse. Artist Calder called them his "Mobiles." Other abstractions in bent wire and wood that did not move were called "Stabiles." Gallery-goers found them strangely exciting...
Today the 1937 season of the Harvard Rugby Club opens ollicially at a general meeting in Eliot House Junior Common Room at 7:45 o'clock. At this time Coach Cabot will explain the general make-up of the Club and outline the plans for the coming season...
...other. When Stokowski gave the ballet its world premiere in Philadelphia five years ago (TIME, April 11, 1932), he had dancers to take such roles as a coconut, a mermaid with a guitar, a swordfish, a gasoline pump, a ventilator. Last week's audience had no dancers to explain what was happening or to whom it was happening. They heard only music to express life aboard ship, a hot-blooded tango where the mermaids are supposed to interrupt ship routine, two catchy tunes to convey tropic abandon. Critics suspected that H. P. contained more South American hotcha than...
...other student interested in such a vacation experience with the Mission may accompany the party at his own expense. Raymond Dennett '36, Graduate Secretary of the Phillips Brooks House, will explain details of the trip to prospective adventurers...
...lone wolf like himself, invited him to come and work with him at Aries. Their queer partnership broke up when van Gogh went crazy and cut off his ear with a razor. Meanwhile Gauguin and Mette wrote to each other, in a fairly friendly fashion. He tried to explain to her why he was acting as he did: "My business is art, it is my capital, it is the future of my children, it is the honour of the name I have given them-all things which will serve them one day. Therefore I work at my art, which...