Word: modell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...institution as ancient as Harvard," he said, "and with the traditions in which Harvard has justifiable pride, should serve as an inspiration and model to the remainder of the community. The students should have a more decent regard for the rights of their fellow men. In my judgement it is essential that this should be enforced by the University if it is to hold the esteem of the public which it has enjoyed in the past...
Less of a glamor girl, more of a conscientious craftswoman, is 1938-model Prima Donna Lotte Lehmann, who last month also published an autobiography.† Though overshadowed in the public eye by the more spectacular Kirsten Flagstad, German-born Soprano Lehmann has, for five years, been rated tops by Metropolitan opera connoisseurs...
...than their flights. (In New York, says one report, 40 boatloads went begging at one cent a pigeon, were finally thrown to the hogs.) The last passenger pigeon died in the Cincinnati zoo in 1914. It now perches behind glass in the Smithsonian Institution -an exquisitely poised, apricot-breasted model for some future monument to vanished U. S. frontiers, squandered U. S. resources...
...true, Harvard should do all it can to spread the new gospel. There should be regular boo-leaders and better, organized booing. There should be a set of Harvard boos even as songs and cheers now exist. For any such book of boos, the following might serve as a model...
...seen from the exhibits that the new architecture is not merely a new garb for an old framework," Bogner said. "The public is hard to convince that modern architecture is not a stylistic venture, like a new model of an automobile or a fashion show, but is the outgrowth of new demands set on buildings as a result of social changes and the technological developments...