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...will probably have taken four courses in his department, among which will be found History 1, valuable as a survey, but nevertheless distinctly a survey. The other three fall where they may, while it is the task of tutor and student working together to fill in the chinks and lacquer the surface so that finally it will present an illusion of widespread enlightenment...
Experience has shown that the surface is too thin; the lacquer chips, probably falls off soon after divisionals. Even with four courses the student cannot cover the world from Pericles to Stalin in two short years and have anything but the most casual acquaintance with the subject. Far better to let the courses continue to be surveys, and the tutorial work a more thorough investigation of territory already covered. Instead of being responsible for four fields, a student might choose two, and under tutorial guidance make a complete and invigorating study of those. In place of the H. G. Wells...
American Can appealed squarely to the draught-beer fanciers, called its product Keg-lined Cans. The lining, made of a secret formula, looked like lacquer. Since it bore no real resemblance to a keg, American limited itself to a careful claim that "people say" canned beer tastes better than bottled. It also dusted off the notion that light hurts bottled beer. Keg-lined Cans look like soup cans, have a special can-opener...
...French Revolution began flooding England with harrowing tales of violence, worried him constantly, and during his ten-year reign fears of assassination made him miserable. Only at Brighton could he find contentment. The great Pavilion he built there, with its full-blown domes, tall pagodas of porcelain, panels of lacquer, and strange Indo-Chinese style, was his unconscious assertion of his belief in the dignity of kings, of their right to live extravagantly, romantically, disregarding practical considerations of expense...
Omitting the 19th Century, the mural leaps headlong into Elizabeth Arden's magnificent 20th. A carved lacquer box spills out a few samples of available cosmetics while everywhere lithe young lady Narcissists skate, ski, sail, dive, fly, play tennis, pose with bubbles or just leap for joy. At the extreme right is a modernistic chair from which to emphasize the advantages of beauty through the centuries, a string of pearls have fallen and on which rest a gentleman's silk hat & gloves...