Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Various phases of the life of the Germans will be presented, in order to acquaint students with the situation existing in the land about which they are studying. The meeting is open to the University...
...attempt to assist tutees concentrating in German, Arthur Burkhard, chairman of the board of tutors in German, will show a film depicting life in Germany, tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock in Agassiz Theatre...
...drinking as a baby, sneak-thieving as a schoolboy, pool-playing, loafing, robbing, killing?such things, say numerous subtitles, land young men in the jug. In spite of the monotonous effort of the script to point a moral. Director Raoul Walsh has made this rather gentle document of crook life effective by little niceties?the ward-heeler spitting in the hand, extended for a friendly shake, of the gangster who taught his son bad ways; the prisoner in the visiting room who wants to pass a bar of chocolate to his baby...
Included in the exhibition are the famous Athenaeum paintings of George and Martha Washington. Of them spoke John Neal in the Atlantic Monthly (1868), saying: "If Washington should return to life and stand side by side with the portrait and not resemble it he would be called an impostor." Also included are the portraits of the first five Presidents, painted on mahogany panels planned to resemble the texture of canvas; the first painting ever done by Stuart (at the age of 12); the alleged last painting he ever did (of Mrs. John Forrester); that of Commodore Oliver Hazzard Perry...
...Pittsburgh a conglomerate swarm padded about the galleries, grouped itself according to tastes before 381 paintings. Esthetes looked at landscapes, still life, murmured abstrusely of planes, tonality, feeling. Paintings from these categories won most of the prizes. The great philistine majority, as usual, neglected pots, petunias, pastures; it preferred pictures containing human figures...