Word: nineteenth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...truly fitting that the Gauguin exhibit should follow that of Van Gogh, for the two artists were kindred spirits in the world of art. Both at the end of the nineteenth century led the way out of the cramping formula of Impressionism and to both color was a means of expressing feeling and thought...
...present teacher in German 1a, Prose and Poetry, 4, Goethe, 2a, Topics in the works of Heinrich von Kleist, and 26, Nineteenth Century literature, Professor Silz has been a member of the Faculty since...
...this point the command again rings in memory: "Get wisdom, but with all thy getting, get understanding." In the nineteenth century and the first third of the twentieth, the area of man's knowledge vastly increased. Jove's lightning, once more mysterious than the sun-spots, now illuminates homes, irons shirts and cooks toast. At 150 miles an hour man rides the air more easily than stage-horses could plod the ground at fifteen. The X-ray pierces steel, and the radio causes a whisper to be heard in five continents. But the alphabet and the multiplication-table are unchanged...
...College seal of Locke's diploma, now lost, was affixed to a blue ribbon, rather than to the red one of today. Blue and yellow appear to have been the usual color of these bands until the middle of the nineteenth century, when red became the College color as a result of President Eliot's gift of Crimson handkerchiefs to the crew before a Yale race...
...efforts to uphold the amenities are always failing; the pedantic and bespectacled English girl awkwardly seeking a husband; and many others of a similar comic "genre". The plot is one of clean drawing-room intrigue, arising from the misunderstanding of misplaced letters. And yet in spite of its conventional nineteenth-century machinery, the film is genuinely amusing. The lines are distinguished by their delightful penetration into the incongruities of human character; and they are spoken superbly. As is rare in an American movie, but usual in a French, each character is an individual. The expressive nuances of gesture and intonation...