Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First Prize is $100 and the second $50. Other prizes are copies of Van Doron's "Life of Franklin," and Morison's "Builders of the Bay Colony...
...courses, where innumerable slides appear in swift succession upon the screen, with equally swift comments by the instructor. At the end of such a course, the victim of this "speed-up" system is expected to "identify" a goodly number of slides, and will doubtless pass the rest of his life comfortably unaware of the distinction between recognition and understanding. In such fashion, as one college catalogue once stated, "the student learns to recognize the old masters upon sight." To be on speaking terms with Raphael is the beginning, but surely not the end of a liberal education in the arts...
...trumpet" style piano from which present piano-men get their ideas. Louis can take three notes and make them mean more than fifty by anybody else. The reasons are his magnificently emotional tone and his ability to phrase so simply and sincerely that the notes take on meaning and life. They cease to be mere technical cadenzas or glissandos and become a pattern that conveys an idea. It is for developing this idea of emotional simplicity, of taste in playing, and of making a solo and ideas contained within it a unified whole that Louis is acclaimed as the papa...
...satire of Greek city life, the play tells how two Atheisns, dissatisfied with their city, set out to build a Utopia among the birds. Dreseed in fanciful headdresses and prancing about the stage, the chorus of birds will have an important part in the production...
...have aimed at a simplicity of interpretation; at presenting a Hamlet who is not an abnormal neurotic, but a young man, full of the zest for life, but ultra-sensitive to the shocks and disillusionments, caught in a particularly horrible and brutal set of circumstances." Thus the director of Maurice Evans' complete "Hamlet" has summarized her work; and thus, simply and directly, Miss Webster has expressed both the strength and the weakness of the justly celebrated production...