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...called the right of a University of its teachers as the fundamental issue involved. "It is to the enduring credit of this university that its faculties and its officers of administration recognized the true character of the issue with which they had to deal and mot it with resolution and courage," he continued...
...which line its walls are only the outward aspect of the Museum's role in the University and in the study of anthropology. The Museum is far loss purely antiquarian and far more complex than it-may appear to most of its casual Sunday visitors. Like the figurative iceberg, mot of Peabody lies below the surface...
...position. A maximum figure runs near $4,500, with the usual income somewhere in the vicinity of $3,500. Incidentally, West Coat banks pay out more money to their staffs than banks in any other area in the country. Institutions in the south and Middle Atlantic are the mot close-fisted, having payrolls considerably smaller than the national average. Small banks pay executives loan than one-fourth the amount they would receive working for the largest banks; small towns, however, have much lower cost-of-living indexes than these of New York City, Chicago, and San Francisco...
...episode foreshadowed more than a bon mot. When Whistler died (in 1903), his famed Mother was almost the only solid which he had not defined gaseously. Like rebellious painters of every era, he believed that his contemporaries never painted what they saw-only what professors had bullied them into believing they saw. In Whistler's magical eyes, all natural objects appeared to be misty, intangible "arrangements," "harmonies" and "symphonies" constructed of overlapping tones of light & shade-which may be why he crept up on an artist absorbed in painting a stone-for-stone facsimile of St. Mark...
...years, the MARCH OF TIME successfully pioneered a new movie field: the documentary newsreel. This year, MOT stopped shooting its regular monthly films to concentrate on TV documentaries (TIME, July 16). But the old TIMES were not gone forever. Last month, in two Manhattan theaters, MOT revived seven of its 205 film essays, billed as "The MARCH OF TIME'S History in the Making Series." Last week, encouraged by the box-office returns in Manhattan, MOT decided to reissue its whole stock of 205 films in eleven other coast-to-coast cities, planned to include more cities as prints...