Word: expressione
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They were an engaging company, the captain that "never used a big, big D," the admiral that thought "the expression, 'If you please,' a particularly gentlemanly tone implants," and all the rest, down to his sisters and his cousins and his aunts. All doors opened to them, and encouraged by...
The style of the head may be characterized as marking the transition from Phidias to Praxiteles in its combination of simplicity and dignity with rather detailed modelling and striving for expression. The massed irregularity of the curling locks of hair has a notable variety, showing much skill in their rendition...
Some criticism of the methods of the correctors in the French Department is in order. I do not know whether papers from all course in the Department are read by the same correctors my plaint specifically concern French 2. In this course an exercise in idiomatic composition is required once...
The doctor's laboratory is amazingly macabre. It is situated in a cavernous windmill on top of a small mountain. Having infused life into his monster by hoisting him up to the ceiling on an operating table, causing electricity to crackle from all quarters, the doctor (Colin Clive) is...
Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan, Baron Moynihan of Leeds, president of the Royal College of Surgeons, had a look at Sculptor Jacob Epstein's Genesis, grotesque figure of primitive pregnancy. Wrote he to his newspaper: "I regret to say that, in my opinion, Epstein is almost certainly guilty of an...