Word: fashionables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...times. They opposed the Austrian-German Customs Union; yet that will surely come eventually, if it is not already existent in fact. They oppose German equality; yet no nation as strong as Germany can permanently be regarded as inferior. The coat cut in 1918 is no longer in fashion. Economic and political forces are breaking it at every seam. MacDonald's thesis seems right: it is better to redesign this coat in a peaceful manner than wait for a duel to kill the owner and his neighbors...
...spite of this, or perhaps partly because of this, 1a is a splendid introduction to the field of Fine Arts. The lectures during the first half-year, given by Professor Pope assisted by Mr. Feild, outline the principles of drawing, painting, and design in a concrete and intelligent fashion, and they establish the vocabulary which is used in the later part of the course in analysis of the great masters of the historical schools of painting...
...century, is naturally not as vivid and detailed yet at the same time as comprehensive as that of Professor Morize, who is a romantic at heart, and is inclined to resent the disparaging remarks made by members of other departments about Victor Hugo, or of Professor Allard, whose inimitable fashion of talking attracts many students...
...theses are required during the year. Corneille, Racine, and Moliere consume the greatest amount or time both inside and outside the classroom, but the reading of their plays is well worth while. Most of the other writers of less fame are covered in more or less sketchy fashion which does not interest the student to any considerable extent in either the lecture or the subject. Too many of the facts brought out, for facts are regrettably the mainstay of the talks, are ones which the hearers have usually heard once before. Perhaps a more satisfactory system would be that used...
...Through practical experience the beginner in business accumulates in piecemeal fashion a growing mass of concrete bits of knowledge. If this lies in his mind as a jumbled pile of more or less unrelated facts and experiences, it won't help him much or enable him to go very far. But if he has some capacity for generalization and seeing things broadly in outline and some ability to think in terms of principles and policies, he will in time be able to work out a pattern or program into which he can fit his accumulated fragments of knowledge in much...