Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quarterly will be designed as a general medium of expression at Harvard. It will contain articles both by Harvard students and alumni and by writers having no connection with the University. The first issue will be next September...
...melodrama. When he wrote Teeftallow (1926), a story of his Tennessee hill country, critics first began to notice him. Last April U. S. radio-listeners followed suit, when his radio novel, Conflict, began to be broadcast over the Columbia network. Author Stribling is enthusiastic over radio as a literary medium, says its sound effects free the author "from an immense labor of description," considers it "the most perfect instrument for the artistic imagination yet devised...
...Tokyo, Medium Kii Tsuchiya wrote: ''When I looked at my face in the mirror this morning, I read my destiny. I found it was my lot to die a sudden and unexpected death. I am old and do not wish to die in an automobile accident or be killed under falling debris. I want to die peacefully, at home.'' She did. She stepped into the family well...
...advertisement is a thing-in-itself." Advertising ("the Business Nobody Knows"), says Rorty, is not confined to the agencies but includes newspapers, magazines, radio, all businesses which owe their living to advertising revenue. The Saturday Evening Post "may or may not consider itself primarily an advertising medium; it is so regarded by the advertiser and his agent. ... If the press were or could be a disinterested educational instrumentality it might be expected to correct the miseducation sponsored by its advertisers, but then, if the press functioned in the interests of its readers rather than in the interests of its advertisers...
Technically this inner quality is manifested in a tremendous vitality expressed with an understanding of the values of rhythm and mass. And there is a often fine organic unity which shows in a plastic sense, surpassing that of most civilized peoples. This is attributable to the wooden medium which of its nature gives a flexibility lacking in stone. The surfaces in particular are of unusual quality and reflect the laborious workmanship involved in the creation...