Word: fragmentism
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...boys, as they must be affectionately called, approach the task of demolishing a husky, tall section of wall. It is part of the once proud structure opposite Phillips Brooks House, and towering fragment of loose bricks as it is, it stands stark and alone, the very last piece of Hemenway's walls. The boys, about six of them, drag a heavy steel cable across the ruins of the foundations and try to wrap it around the tall, narrow piece of wall. They cannot hitch it on high enough to get effective leverage. The other end of the cable is bent...
Forty photographs, each one reproducing a fragment of the sun-flooded grandeur of old and new Mexico, are now on view in the entrance lobby of Robinson Hall, where they will remain until next Wednesday...
Locker-Boy Thomas Bowman jumped for the trailing fragment of anchor line, stumbled when he was about to grab it. As Aerialist Mingalone rose speedily, so did the alarm of his fellow Cameraman Philip Coolidge and his friend, Rev. James J. Mullen, Old Orchard priest, golfer, aviation enthusiast and expert skeetshooter who was watching the experiment...
...such possessions as Filippo Lippi's Madonna & Child, François Clouet's Elizabeth of Valois. No less choice was the head of a Greek girl in Parian marble, 4th Century B.C., which the Museum snagged in June, The Boston Museum has the only other life-size fragment in the world which critics consider comparable in style, quality and period...
...stalk up alone for a confab, the Khan changed his mind about the slaughter. Wee Willie Winkie is a craftsman's picture which is also, surpassingly, an audience's picture. To able Associate Producer Gene Markey goes credit for seeing how the suggestions implicit in the Kipling fragment could be nursed into an epic; to able Director John Ford (The Informer), responsibility for the picture's pace, its sustained adventurous mood, its accumulation of memorable physical details; to Actors C. Aubrey Smith and Victor McLaglen the complete realization of two roles as great as any they ever...