Word: gamut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play ends with Terekhine's crime discovered and his punishment in the offing. He obviously represents the gamut of hypocritical, cruel, supremely selfish obstacles to the Soviet ideal. At one point he rehearses a speech about hunger with his mouth full of bread and beer. But even as Terekhine is apprehended, so the authors seem to imply that the Soviet cause will ultimately be purified. Full of good talk and temperamental skirmishes, the play reveals a sophisticated degree of analysis. It is the first production of the Theatre Guild Studio, experimental offshoot of the Theatre Guild employing its younger...
...humor his literary ambition and let him go east. In a sleepy little village on the Hudson he boards with his impoverished cousins, the Tracys, and discovers an old house, the Lorburn family mansion, built in the early 19th Century style of "Hudson River Bracketed." Vance runs the usual gamut of the literarily ambitious small-town boy; he discovers that he is no poet, goes home to Euphoria, gets a job on the local newspaper. But his ambition will not be downed: three years later he gets back to Manhattan on the strength of one published story, marries his Tracy...
...Japanese art circles the work of M. Foujita is considered French, mediocre. In France it is generally held to be Nipponesque, exotic, original. Foujita's women run the gamut from harlots to Madonnas, but all have catlike eyes. Asked last week about his acrobatic Parisian wife, callous...
...there is little to be asked for in the way of increased athletic equipment and facilities which is not now being carried out by the H. A. A. Every one who wants to play football, plays football. Anyone who wants to row, rows; and so on throughout the whole gamut of organized athletics, there is opportunity and equipment for all, The one exception is the new gymnasium. Throughout the current year there has been talk of the difficulty of raising sufficient funds for its completion, and at present the plan is to leave the construction of the top story until...
...amusement. Dominant was the 44th exhibition of the Architectural League of New York. But since architecture is more than, ever a synthesis of many elements - pure design, clients' specifications, construction engineering, interior decorating, landscape architecture, plumbing - much of the space was devoted to the Allied Arts. The architectural gamut ran through garages, houses, churches, public buildings, reached a skyward climax in Manhattan Architect William Van Alen's plans for the new Chrysler Building, to be world's highest (68 stories), now under construction in midtown Manhattan. Everywhere apparent was the tendency toward simplification of form...