Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many departments claim that tutorial for credit provides an opportunity for independent study. With the stiffening of degree requirements, however, a student is unlikely to use his tutorial in an unconventional fashion. Tutorial offers no escape to a special subject outside one's field, and seldom to a subject not covered by a formal course...
...Samuels, 78, sold Joseph Widener a $400,000 tapestry, he lost Henry Clay Frick as a customer for years. In the '20s, rich collectors liked the huge, cumbersome furniture of the Renaissance. Though museums have largely taken the places of the big buyers, Renaissance pieces are out of fashion today, when even the wealthy live in smaller apartments. What sells well now are French, English and Venetian pieces of the 18th century, whose size and grace blend well with contemporary furnishings. Most popular are the Louis XV and Louis XVI chests, tables and chairs; their light-colored woods look...
...delighting, consoling canvases. There would be present, inevitably, the proponents of the mode, the counter-mode, the eclat-du-jour, whatever it might be. There would be a mass of realists, as they are called, "magic" or otherwise, and a crowd of abstractionists, enchanted or unenchanted in like fashion. There would be the hawkers of social reform, the psychological brooders, those of the dark palettes, and so forth. In short, there would be a pot-pourri of most everything. Feininger invariably survived the tempest as one of the few who indeed justified it. Those interested parties among us who eagerly...
...articles from such Depression-struck authors as F. Scott Fitzgerald, e. e. cummings, John Dos Passes, Ezra Pound and Dashiell Hammett (one exception: Ernest Hemingway, who got $1,000 for The Snows of Kilimanjaro), served up the cheesecake of Artist George Petty as dessert. Despite the 50? price tag, fashion-plating Esquire boomed to a circulation of 625,000 in 1937. Chortled Publisher Smart: "Why didn't somebody tell me about this publishing game before? It's a cinch...
Irwin Shaw has taken Patate from the French of Marcel Achard, and he would be well advised to put it back. As a laugh show, this "New Comedy" suffers from a paucity of laughs. And since the script is not a gimmick adorned by gags, in the fashion of most American comedies, but a closely plotted dramatic whole, there seems very little possibility of its being rewritten and rescued by skillful gagsmithing...