Word: light
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...terms, to demonstrate their perennial vitality by showing their relation to modern problems and fashions. We may not be willing, like the English scholar, to reduce the Greek religion to a set of anthropological phenomena, but we may seek to illuminate such modern governmental tendencies as socialism by the light of Plato's Republic and the Spartan system...
...singing of each of the six competing clubs, Columbia, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Penn. State, and Princeton, was strikingly uniform and the performance of each was highly praiseworthy. Each club sang Edward MacDowell's famous "War Song," this piece forming the competitive feature of the contest, and in addition, a light piece, and a college selection...
...Divinity Field. These courts will be reserved exclusively for the University team, and their construction is practically completed, except for a little resurfacing in the spring, to put them in first-rate condition. Screens will be placed at the ends of the courts so as to improve the light and, indirectly, to exclude the public...
...like those of his earlier works. In paintings of this type, Turner's method in its combination of under-painting, transparent glazes, and opaque scumbles suggests that of the great Venetian figure painters, applied to landscape. The whole picture is wonderfully luminous and transparent, and the delicate plays of light are very subtly and convincingly expressed. Most remarkable perhaps is the expression of existence in three dimensional space achieved by the carefully thought out design and the calculated execution...
...painted with unusual animation and attention to detail. The warm-colored sails are brought down in beautiful reflections in the limpid water of the trough of the sea, and the transparent surface of the large wave at the left is finely relieved by a touch of opaque white light supplied by a sea gull flying close to the green water, the limpidity of which is further accentuated by the spume-fringed eddies on the surface of the trough...