Word: mourning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fine Arts has been able to produce? The sketches also struck a responsive chord in me--particularly a small sketch hidden away on page 289, untitled, unadorned. There is no use in going over the whole number in these columns, they suit better their natural habitat. Let the Jester mourn. When he does, we can smile; it is only when he is rioting in mirth that we cannot appreciate him. He has done a good job--let him mourn...
...those to be found in the Boston Museum, which are the best outside the Orient. But these are of very real and decorative value. The Nirvana of the Buddha, half obliterated as it is, contains some splendid passages of color and most vivid drawings of the animals that mourn about the death couch...
...Edward Collins, Ruth Porter Crawford, Lillian Rosedale Goodman. Some of them, to be sure, are a bit elaborate for the earthy tunes that inspired them but for the most part they are well adapted. Any complaints will come from the specialist in ditties and native folk music. They will mourn omissions, but the minstrel's own apologia must answer them: "I should like to have taken ten, twenty, thirty years more in the preparation of this volume...
Suffice it to say that those who mourn the passing of romance will find in this tale adventures compared to which many of more classic stories of battle and exploration pale to insignificance. Already it is being noised abroad that the German fleet performed far more creditable exploits during the war than we were allowed to suppose at the time. The true accounts of the Battle of Jutland and Count Luckner's narrative have gone far to explode the myth of British naval supremacy. And, as it becomes less and less treasonous to believe facts, we will come to know...
...coming when no student whose brilliance and purpose warrant it need mourn the meagreness of a U. S. education, no matter what his income. Many scholarships have been founded similar to the Lewisohn bequest which spend each year over a million and a half educating U. S. students in Europe...