Word: fines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theory of Harvard College is to give a broad cultural education, it seems to me that a course in Fine Arts should be available. Ideally, its object would be to interest the student who is going to be a bank president in art, and enable him to make intelligent comments when visiting foreign art galleries on his honeymoon...
...course was given to selected students from the eighteen public schools in Cambridge and the lecture topics included the Art of Egypt, the Cathedrals of the Middle Ages, Art Treasures of the Vatican, and American Colonial Silver Work. Special excursions were also made to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston...
David Frankfurter, a nervous, hollow-eyed young Jew born in Yugoslavia, took the train from Berne last week to the Swiss winter sports resort of Davos. He did not go there to ski, and, though Davos boasts a fine meteorological observatory, he was not interested in the weather. After hanging around town for three days, he asked his way to the home of Dr. Wilhelm Gustloff, physicist at the Davos observatory. Bustling Frau Gustloff ushered him into the study. When the Doctor rose to greet him, David Frankfurter whipped out a pistol, sent five bullets crashing into his body. Wilhelm...
Born in Philadelphia in 1870. Maxfield Parrish inherited his talent from his father. Etcher Stephen Parrish. Comfortably off, he was sent to Haverford college, later to Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. There he began experimenting with that deep luminous color with which he was later to win his popular renown. Not until he went to Paris did he learn the trick from copyists of Flemish and Italian primitives. A Maxfield Parrish sky starts with a wash of thin plaster on a prepared board, followed by a coat of pure ultramarine blue. Successive layers of transparent blue glazes...
...doth set down-as is the business of philosophers-a notion upon which a systematic metaphysical cosomology ought to be constructed. And this be the far-reaching notion "that the energetic activity considered in physics is the emotional intensity entertained in life." Which, bless my soul, is an exceeding fine idea for it doth relate the activities of life and nature into the creative reality; and doth make us and our experiences an integral part of the whole. But this meaningless to those who know not philosophy...