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...Child is a Santa Claus and horses vaguely limned in pink highlights. In Three-Masted Schooner, green and bronze hues on the sails seem to reflect light from both shore and sea. Most striking of the nudes depicts an olive-skinned brunette and a rosy blonde reclining in affectionate languor on a couch, the pink sands of the Mediterranean gleaming through a window, a pink curtain blowing across a table, a statuet of a man on a pedestal in the background...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: For Pleasure | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

...counts the number of students taking History 1 in the New Lecture Hall. In the evenings he watches the first of the terrific little moths fling themselves with pings of desperation against the tin shade of his study lamp. And in the mornings, supine upon his pallet of horrid languor, he gazes with admiration at the accurate spider stretching her slow web across a corner in anticipation of the few flies which wander solemnly through the unremembered rafters of Memorial Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 4/25/1934 | See Source »

...bottom quarter by a large, loose mouth which can be as horrible as a conventionalized Grecian mask or can twist up into one of the most appealing smiles on the U. S. boards. Her eyes are as heavy-lidded as Tallulah Bankhead's. not from cinematographic languor but from a ceaseless brooding contemplation. She now wears her dark, slightly wavy hair shoulder length and behind her ears. Her friends call her "Kit." She is precious in the care of her voice, does not like to talk before a performance. Before and after all, she is an actress. She is intelligent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Seven Minds & Four Cultures | 12/26/1932 | See Source »

...obvious to any critical observer. The belief in the passive resistance of undergraduates to jingoistic ideas of one kind or another is upset by the realization that the undergraduate is passively accepting House originality, even during the last three months. The process is slow, but its very passivity and languor indicates the impressionability of the students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TODAY AND TOMORROW | 12/16/1930 | See Source »

...among the care-free Greenlanders the atmosphere had a pleasant languor which seems to be rather lacking in Cambridge this fall. Of course, the Square, since the Vagabond's day has always been something of a cross betwen a boiler-works and a bedlam, but the solemn quiet of the Yard seems to have been rather unceremoniously encroached upon. Way up in the North one can't expect to be up on all of the latest developments, so it was with considerable surprise, and just a tinge of regret, that the Vagabond observed the new building operations on the Yard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 9/18/1930 | See Source »

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