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...dozen paintings by the American artist Edward Hopper. This should have pleased those with conservative tastes. Hopper chose ordinary, commonplace subjects and painted them almost realistically. But the almost is crucial; for herein lies his personal contribution. Somehow he was able to capture masterfully the moods of lone-liness. The best-known item in this dozen was "The Bootleggers." In it, Hopper painted his clapboard house not white, not gray, but light blue; and this bluishness works an ineffable effect on the beholder...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: 8th Annual Arts Festival Best Yet Despite Weather | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

...taken English 12, picked up "The Copeland Reader" and browsed at random, or sat entranced under the spell of Professor Copeland's reading can have failed to realize his personification of Harvard's gentleman liness and scholarship. Any one of these experiences would be more than sufficient to make the announcement of Professor Copeland's resignation from the Faculty tragic if the fact of his resigning made it conceivable that he would lose one iota of his nearness to the University. He is and ever will be Harvard's as much as University Hall is Harvard's, and into Hollis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHARLES TOWNSEND COPELAND | 1/21/1928 | See Source »

...nomadic cult, which had much in common with the later monotheistic idea. Like all nations, the Hebrews had two sides to their national character. The world y ambition and soldiery qualities of the Maccabees and the like go side by side with and are constantly striving against the unworld-liness and angelic virtues of Hoses, Amos and the other inspired prophets. The three chief characteristics of the Hebrew nation were an extreme sensitiveness in matters of religion, a tenacity of self-preservation, and a practical tendency which found expression in the belief that works were more important than the faith...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lecture by Dr. Adler. | 2/21/1901 | See Source »

...always act and speak in a courteous and gentlemanly manner, has long existed. It is not, we hope, about to die out. The last number of the Crimson plainly, but unwittingly, we hope, violates this tradition, and induges in an unseemly slur upon the reputation for gentleman-liness of the visitors from Yale to our recent 'Varsity game. The conduct of the Yale team, it cannot be denied, was in general ungentlemanly and altogether reprehensible. The conduct of the Yale papers since the game has been equally bad or even worse. But not all this, we think, affords our contemporary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/5/1882 | See Source »

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