Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Breathlessly Nanking waited word from General Huang Mu-sung. No direct word came from him for weeks, but last week Huang Mu-sung was back in Nanking, his yellow face wreathed in smiles. Tibet, he roundly swore, was ready to forget 21 years of estrangement from China, would now cooperate fully with the Nationalist Government...
...slightly the beauty of the original), lantern slides (which because of their lack of color can only vaguely suggest the perfection of a work of art), and, lastly, hard work (which without the painting is next to useless from the point of view of appreciation). The writer seems to forget that the idea of any university should be the enrichment of life not only through contact with fine books and enlightened professors but also through the visual arts. Therefore in letting a good artist, which Orosco is, do a series of murals, Dartmouth has approached one step nearer than Harvard...
...their appreciation of works of art by first-hand contact with them outside of a museum, instead of by the only sound methods which are books, lantern slides, and hard work. They may be persuaded that mere enjoyment of art is the end desired. They will surely forget that criticism and the knowledge that will fit them for the curatorship of a museum are the worthwhile parts of artistic study. We have here been, we are glad to say, quite successful in excluding anything in our buildings that might suggest art for art's sake, as can be seen...
Catholic-And don't forget there is considerable Christian money invested in the motion picture industry...
...forget. Shortly after the Civil War he painted a highly melodramatic canvas of the evacuation of a Missouri farmhouse: the ruthless soldiers, the fainting mother, the weeping daughters, the stalwart father. When in 1879 Thomas Ewing ran for Governor of Ohio, George Caleb Bingham sent Martial Law junketing from town to town in that State on the crest of a flood of anti-Ewing pamphlets. General Ewing was defeated...