Word: fined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Spaulding has lent some of the very fine things in the exhibition. His pictures--eighteen in all--have a general high level of quality. His "Still Life" by Matisse is a daring picture. The artist is interested only in colour and pattern. It is subtle and defies accepted rules. On analysis it proves, like some of the most interesting music of the period, to be made up of discords of color rather than harmonies...
...directors of the Fogg Museum at Harvard University, in attempting to popularize fine arts, have recently adopted a highly commendable experiment to loan paintings to students to decorate their rooms. It is their contention that real beauty of a painting can better be found while observing it in one's own rooms in surroundings of comparative comfort, rather than in the severe background of a museum...
...ANTHOLOGY or WORLD POETRY-Edited by Mark Van Doren-Simon & Schuster ($5). Discrimination as well as scope is in this fine piece of editing. The authors range from Li Tai-po to Sappho and Goethe; the translators from Swinburne to Edwin Arlington Robinson...
PAUL BLOCK, Publisher of metropolitan newspapers: "America has lost one of its most brilliant publishers and writers-one who accomplished in a few years what many publishers have tried to do in many years. I am so deeply shocked at the loss of this fine outstanding man and publisher that I am not able to express my feelings...
STANLEY RESOR, President of the J. Walter Thompson Company: "Sincerest sympathy in the loss of so fine a friend as well as so brilliant a co-worker as Briton Hadden...