Word: expressione
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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It is too obvious that the government in itself is powerless. Indeed, the only effectual resource of the state for solving crimes is to ally itself with criminals, and never before has that alliance been so shameless. That the American people, moreover, should be willing and even eager to harbor...
Teaching, however, is an intensely personal matter; it depends on the personality of the instructor and on the depth of his appreciation of his subject. No amount of theorizing can make a good teacher of a man not adapted for his job, while an excessive amount of it may dampen...
As nearly everyone remembers, the name "Kabibble" comes from the familiar expression of two decades ago, "Ish kabibble" ("I should worry"). It is a corruption of the Yiddish jargon "nisht gefidelt" which meant the same thing but was hard for Gentiles to pronounce. Cartoonist Hershfield, who takes the action of...
What a contrast there is between this firm-fleshed, bouncing gamin and the delicate, well brought-up little boy by Desidevaerio. The charm of this master's busts of children is almost too evanescent a thing to describe in words. One will want to look at this little head from...
Donatello's St. John the Baptist embodies the spiritual intensity of his other versions of this subject. This Tuscan boy reveals in its ascetic beauty the religious fervor and the introspective side of the Renaissance character. This expression of thought and the splendidly structural modelling of the head make this...