Word: expressiveness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...principal arguments of the affirmative were that women would be able to express their personalities more freely if freed from the dictates of fashion. Then clothes would be better made and last longer; whereas the time now spent in shopping would be devoted to more constructive activity. Mass production of dresses would be displaced by the couturier system as in Paris, with resulting better fitting clothes...
Optimistic, but not in the least overconfident, are the words which express the feelings of Coach Wes Fesler and his Varsity cagers who are invading the Tiger's lair at Princeton tonight, hoping to repeat their "Once Over Lightly" (40 to 39) triumph of the previous meeting of the two teams in Cambridge...
...laga were extraordinary affairs. The sombre, elongated El Grecos which Picasso had studied in Madrid certainly influenced his manner; so did the predominantly blue compositions of Cezanne. But, unlike Cezanne and still more unlike the Impressionists, Picasso was uninterested in Nature, painted to make paintings, painted to express himself...
...affairs. For undergraduates who like to get around, there is close contact with the men who run Harvard, as officers, professors or students. For men with special interests in a vast variety of subjects--politics, sports, humanity in general and collegiate humanity in particular--there is an opportunity to express those interests. Specifically to artists and musicians does the Editorial Board offer a chance to criticize. Students with an occupational interest in newspaper work, photography, or business, will get practical experience not to be surpassed by an actual apprenticeship in the non-cloistered world...
...Teachers' Union in its tactful statement last night did not express an opinion on "matters of departmental competence"-presumably to decide on the qualifications of its staff members. But it did bring into the open an issue which has plagued the University in the past and which will continue to as long as its theory and practice of academic tenure remains unchanged. It is the spectacle of the great, impersonal university playing with the lives of its hirelings, using them as long as they are useful to it and discarding them unsystematically. Up to a point this rigorous competition...