Word: marcel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They were designed by famed Bauhaus-founder Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer. They will stand on stilts over a lake (see cut), will be modernist in style. Besides classrooms, a library, laboratories, shops, offices, the buildings will include two-room apartments for teachers, rooms for 120 students. Each student will have a private study but share a bedroom. Most unusual aspect of the plans is the buildings' compactness, for compact community life...
...show will be given some time in the latter part of May in one of Boston's largest theatres and will run for four days. Written by Marcel Achard and produced in Paris last year by Louis Jouvet, the play was hailed as a definite succeeds...
...highbrow, never attained a wide circulation (900). Yet its influence unquestionably exceeded that of any other English literary journal. Its first issue printed T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, probably the most influential modern poem. It was the first English periodical to publish the work of Marcel Proust, Paul Valery, Jean Cocteau, many another since-famed major European writer. The list of its contributors-James Joyce, Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats. Robert Graves-is an honor roll of contemporary letters...
Works of Beethoven, Brahms, and Haydn comprise this year's program of the Stradivarius Quartet, which will give a concert at Fogg Museum next Thursday. Members of the famous Quartet are Wolfe Wolfinson, Bernard Robbins, Marcel Dick and Iwan d'Archambeau...
...Dada intellectuals known best in Manhattan were Marcel Duchamp (Nude Descending the Staircase) and his friend Francis Picabia. Picabia, born in Paris in 1878 of a French mother and a Spanish father, began exhibiting landscapes in Paris in 1894, enjoyed official successes and easy sales until 1913, when he got fed up with success. Moving first to Manhattan, then to Barcelona, finally to Paris in 1920, Picabia poured out bucketfuls of Dada, including his noted Portrait of Cézanne, Portrait of Rembrandt, Portrait of Renoir, Still Lives (all this consisting of a stuffed monkey mounted on a board...