Word: expressiveness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Concluding his address, Hawley thought there was no pressing need for rebuilding cities or constructing express highways for purely local traffic. "I believe that our streets are capable of handling considerably greater volumes of traffic than they are at present carrying," he said...
...children do just whatever they wish in three hour periods each afternoon and on Saturday mornings. Each one is given a large paint brush and a biscuit tin full of colors and told to go ahead and paint. The idea is simply to give the children a chance to express themselves creatively in any way they want...
...work proves to be of the Flemish or Dutch school of the middle of the seventeenth century. This was a time when Flemish sculptors were in demand all over Europe from Italy to Scandinavia. In their vitality, realism and skill in execution, they were peculiarly fitted to express the temper of that epoch...
...speak German would not be liable to take a course in German literature at a German University, but a German student did that here several years ago. He spoke no English, took a course in English and was coached by his classmates. He showed great interest and desired to express it to the professor, so he went to his well-wishing classmates for some coaching on what...
Seen thus by dim and bobbling light were 229 objets d'art by 60 artists of 14 different nations, many of them expressive of war and spiritual suffering, many more bearing out the abstruse eroticism of the entrance hall. To Surrealists sex and horror are indescribable and somewhat confused; therefore they merely express themselves on these matters through a calculated but capricious symbolism. At least one exhibit was animated (see cut). One of the objects displayed was a suitcase containing a neatly packed skull and gas mask stuffed with newspapers headlined The Menace of Fascism. Another was an enameled...