Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Over the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan last week hung a cheerful serenity; all was in array in the new south wing (opened for the first time) with its huge Roman court and 29 galleries. These complement the older 75 galleries and offices, permit proper display of all collections...
Kongo is also tropical, and it too seethes. It is surrounded and all but smothered in a wealth of Africal detail from tom-toms to a native girl who wants a kiss-kiss. In the midst of this jungle of atmosphere is a huge man (white) paralyzed from the waist down. He is bent upon revenging himself on a man (also white) who has wronged him years before. The play is remorseless, obvious and undeniably effective. Sufficient portions of sex are, of course, added. It will serve nicely for those who now and then like to take the whole evening...
...result of the War, the people of the Near East were left in a condition of poverty which it is hard to realize in this country. Huge numbers of the inhabitants of Asia Minor, Syria, and the Caucasus were left homeless and without means of support or sustenance due to the destruction wreaked upon the country by the coming and going or armies and the devastation of guerilla warfare...
Friendliness in these huge institutions is confined to very small units, indeed, through no fault of the students, perhaps, since the structure of the university life affords no daily meeting ground for the interchange of amenities. The discouragement of intimate association, such as all colleges used to foster among all students, is one of the serious short-comings of the prodigious educational plants. It seems that some artifice must be adopted to make their atmosphere less gelid, and the most natural recourse is to attempt, by some such arrangement as the Harvard committee favors, to bring back to the university...
...felt like the man in the moving picture who wanted to find someone in a Ford. Fords--I mean cameras, were everywhere. Little girls tripped by with Brownie No. A's under Easter sleeves. And I saw an old man, Emeritus Professor of Photography perhaps, lugging along a huge thing that I took to be a moving picture machine. It was all beyond me. I gave up in despair and counted blades of green grass like a erase sentimentalist...