Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...describe Occidental literature. Chinese drama is a formalized, ancient ritual, a subtle play of gesture, expression and intonation in which each turn of the eyeball, each crook of the finger, has definite significance. A Chinese actor succeeds to the extent that he masters this vast, intricate bodily symbolism, the medium of an art far older than Shakespeare's. Mei Lan-fang knew, as he thought it over, that U. S. audiences would only comprehend the simplest elements of his plays as described in an English synopsis, that beyond that he must depend for success on the chance that he could...
...Students' League. In 1904 he married; he has two daughters. For a long time he did oil portraits, exhibiting widely, winning academic honors. But, says he, "I had to commercialize my art by pleasing aunts and uncles, grandmothers and old-maid relatives of sitters. Now I draw ... in any medium I wish ... as I wish . . . and that is to be artistic...
...continuing to expound the benefits of her art, the palmist explained that if one's hands are in a deplorable condition, foretelling only the darkest of future events, there is easy access to the medium of Astrology which might very likely afford a more favorable report. As a last resort this clever person can with equal skill turn to card reading...
There have always been advocates of the theory of visual education, a medium of teaching which has only recently been developed to any considerable extent. It has been difficult, naturally enough, to supply adequate funds to maintain an establishment devoted to producing instructive films. Such films are of course rented to schools and institutions as near the cost of production as possible, and the profits are not large as compared with the amount of money invested in the business...
Whether some phases of the teaching of the arts, as well as the sciences can be brought within the scope of this new method remains still undetermined. Whatever the answer, it is fairly certain that the future will see specialized instruction broadcast through the medium of moving pictures...