Word: graphic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just at present the revolt against the evils of the system seems to be gathering force. The criticism of a Yale English examination made in the World and reprinted elsewhere in these columns is worth the notice of all who have recently had graphic examples in Cambridge of how unsatisfactory examinations...
...land of the Ganges. It did not work very well, everyone admits that, and the Nationalists are demanding with an ever more loud voice that India be granted her independence. So the Simon Commission has made an exhaustive examination of the entire Indian scene. Its published report gives a graphic account of the problem which India presents to her rulers, the second section which will appear June 24 will contain recommendations for a solution...
...books appended to this volume will indicate how much was needed a presentation of Russia's esthetic program since the tumultuous October days of 1917. Only five there listed are exclusively concerned with post-revolution art and literature. Admirably organized, edited and articulated, Voices of October offers a graphic panorama of that part of the Soviet plan. With broad strokes is drawn background of each general division of art in Russia. Follows a statement of the health of that art in 1917; then the slow turning of chaos into the art-propaganda which today dominates Russian esthetics. The time...
There is no library or reference book as handy as the worn and scribbled text book, which has been your companion on and off campus. Can you think of any thing which would be as graphic a commentary on you college life as the notes and names you have jotted on the margins and covers of these books." To what other books have you granted such intimacy of thought" Provost Penniman of the University of Pennsylvania follows this thought with his remark. "I know of no book that can be more properly valued as an 'association book' than the textbook...
Bride 68 (Tobis). With dialog part English and part German, injected at intervals, usually with the effect of interrupting rather than heightening the rapid, graphic flow of visual imagery, this picture deals with men and women in Australia during the gold rush. The men worked in a harsh country, with a fever that made the values of normal life as remote as the riches of hallucination driving them on. The women came to join them, an adventurous shipload of outcasts, each numbered and assigned in lottery to waiting pioneers. One of the women dies coming over...